Europe

UK - Baring Asset Management has appointed Paul Grice as director of UK institutional business to specialise in fixed-income.

UK - OPRA is allowing trustees extra time for transfer payments in a bid to combat trust busting or pension liberation' scams.

UK - BA pensioners are threatening further legal action against the Airways Pension Scheme over its rules on surplus.

UK - Wolverhampton City Council is putting out tenders on behalf of two West Midlands pension funds.

UK - The £200m University of Manchester Superannuation Scheme (UMSS) has become the latest fund to review its investment structure in light of recommendations in the Myners' Report.

FRANCE - Multi-manager firm SEI Investments has finalised its Paris office following its recent buyout of CCF's stake in the joint venture.

UK - State Street Corporation has hired Jessica La Trobe Hynes as vice-president of sales for its investment services business in the UK.

UK - Threadneedle Investments has appointed Stephen Moore to its US equity team as institutional portfolio manager.

UK - Threadneedle Investments has hired Chris White as head of its UK equity income team.

UK - Equity specialists AXA Rosenberg Investment Management have hired Gordon Strachan as a London-based portfolio manager.