Europe

UK - Schroder Investment Management has fired two of its senior US managers.

UK - Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) will be running focus groups for employee benefit professionals.

UK/EUROPE - Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has appointed Jay Bhutani as an energy analyst in the European equity research team.

UK - Unions want to increase representation among financial workers to help them in a growing number of pension disputes.

UK - Pension experts have blamed the Inland Revenue for increasingly delaying scheme wind-up - despite its claims that it has cut the backlog.

UK - Edinburgh Fund Managers' profits plunged 40% during the first half of the year.

UK - Mayfair Capital Partners has launched two property funds which offer the chance to invest in 12 properties spread across the UK's retail, office and industrial sectors.

UK - The NAPF has held top level talks with employers aimed at halting the closure of final salary schemes and preventing further pension strikes.

UK/EUROPE - Russell/Mellon CAPS and managerselection.com are to merge their respective database services.

UK - Automotive consultant Ricardo has blamed rising costs on its £40m final salary pension scheme for a fall in profits and its share price.