Europe

UK - Comino has given Paige Lattimer responsibility for selling its administration system - universal pensions management - to its pension fund clients.

BELGIUM - Lasalle's Euro Growth Fund II real estate fund has moved into Belgium with several acquisitions.

UK - The NAPF has held its first "away day" with new chief executive Christine Farnish.

UK - Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has hired Matthew Harris to its Japanese equity team as an investment director.

UK - Hermes Pensions Management has appointed Colin Melvin as its new head of corporate governance.

UK - e-Signal has updated and improved software to allow users to analyse market movement on a second-by-second basis, rather than every minute.

EUROPE - Swedish pension funds have been changing asset allocation over the last 18 months and have been reducing equity levels as well as moving towards more active management as an attempt to counter falling equity markets.

UK - Standard & Poor's has set up a dedicated pensions division to publish ratings for UK final salary schemes.

UK - A study of people in their 50s and 60s who have taken early retirement has been published by the Policy Studies Institute.

UK - The government faces a £13bn bill to compensate Serps holders who were misinformed over how much they could pass on to spouses.