Europe

UK - Performance analysis firm WM Company has introduced a new risk analysis service.

EUROPE - CDC IXIS Asset Management is opening up seven funds managed by its American subsidiaries to French, Italian, Swedish and German institutional investors.

EUROPE: The European Parliament's committee on economic and monetary affairs has adopted a report that calls for the lifting of restrictions facing pension funds looking to invest in venture capital.

FRANCE - The French employers federation, Mouvement des Entreprises de France (Medef), has put pension reform firmly on the agenda of this year's French electoral campaign.

UK - The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is on track to bring the review of mis-sold personal pensions to a close by the end of June.

EUROPE - The merger of pan-European bourse Euronext and Portugal's Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa e Porto (BVLP) has been given the green light by shareholders.

UK - Gartmore has named Elaine Gordon as its new head of institutional client services, replacing Frances Davies, who was appointed as head of global institutional earlier this month.

UK - Philip Franklin has joined Liberty Ermitage as director of global institutional investor services, reporting to Jonathan Giles, group executive director. His position, which is based in London, includes leading and strengthening the institutional...

UK - Abolition of all benefit and contribution limits, except those on lump sums, would produce a massive simplification of the non-state pensions sector - with little or no scope for abuse, given the recent erosion of pension tax privileges, according...

UK - Members of the embattled Equitable Life have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the compromise deal to plug the troubled mutual's finances.