Europe

UK - Insight Investment has made Chris Hartley, Peter Geike-Cobb and David Hooker fixed income directors.

UK - Unions are blaming employers for the growing "pensions crisis".

UK - Royal & SunAlliance Property Investments is to develop a five-acre retail site in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

UK - IPN's sister publication Professional Pensions (PP) is backing a new campaign for a central pensions archive to collate historical documents and preserve them for posterity.

UK - Pensions consultants and independent trustees are calling on the government to relax its rules on securing GMPs for schemes in wind-up.

UK - Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has hired Christopher Bamberry as investment manager for UK smaller companies.

NORWAY - Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has issued new specialist equity mandates for the the massive US$69bn Government Petroleum Fund.

UK - Watson Wyatt has been ousted from the £35m Home Group pension plan by Mercer Human Resource Consulting as the new bundled adviser.

UK - Steel workers at Caparo have begun a series of one-day strikes over the closure of the firm's final salary scheme.

UK - Unions have accused British Airways of reneging on its promise to let them help devise a defined contribution scheme for new employees.