Europe

UK - The £480m London Borough of Greenwich Pension Fund has put out its assets to tender.

UK - A new fund management firm that promises not to charge clients unless it can produce positive returns has sparked criticism amongst some industry experts.

UK - JPMorgan Treasury Services has made Conor O'Dowd regional head of global trade asset distribution in EMEA.

UK/EUROPE - Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has hired Richard Norval as executive director with the European cash sales team, based in London.

UK/EUROPE - Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has hired Richard Norval as executive director with the European cash sales team, based in London.

US/EUROPE/UK - Investment bank JP Morgan Chase Bank has bought US-based transaction cost analysis firm (TCA) Plexus Group and struck a deal with the UK's Inalytics in bid to expand its services into the European institutional market.

UK - The TUC is planning to develop specialist training for trustees on shareholder activism.

UK - Total sales of shopping centres stands at £2bn so far this year, creating the prospect of a "bumper year" for retail property investment, CB Hillier Parker says.

UK - Most FTSE companies are using overly optimistic long-term estimates on the return on equities in their pension funds, Hymans Robertson believes.

SCOTLAND - Fife Council's superannuation fund is looking to put out a new multi-asset brief worth around £266m in Q4.