Europe

UK/NETHERLANDS - Ashmore Investment Management has won a £54.8m emerging market bonds mandate from Blue Sky.

SCOTLAND - The £6bn Strathclyde Pension Funds has released details of a global custodian and related services tender, first flagged up on IPN in June.

UK/EUROPE - Mercer Investment Consulting has expanded its UK team with the appointment of Chris Gill as a European principal and senior consultant and Steve Herbert as senior consultant.

UK - Controversial plans to tax lump sum commutation payments will form a major part of the Inland Revenue's review on pension reform.

UK - Capital Cranfield looks set to step down as independent trustee at pension liberator The Brand New Carpet Company and Glenworthy.

UK - Research association Sustainable Investment Research International Group will double its coverage from 500 international companies to more than 1000 global corporations.

UK - Trustees who suspect maladministration by scheme administrators must not act too hastily to dismiss them, says Linklaters.

UK - The campaign to establish an Occupational Pensions Archives Trust to collate and preserve historical documents has received overwhelming support.

UK/EUROPE - Rating agency Standard & Poor's will hold corporate credit risk analysis workshops in London, Paris, Zurich, and Frankfurt from October to December.

FRANCE/NETHERLANDS - La Mondiale, the French mutual life insurance and pensions company, and Dutch global life insurers Aegon have joined forces in a bid to seize a share of Europe's private pensions market.