Europe

UK - Speculation is growing the government has decided against the Law Commission reviewing the issue of pension surplus rights - one of the original Myners proposals.

UK - The Home Office is to carry out a radical review of the Police Pension Scheme in a bid to stem the flood of officers retiring early and to stop haemorrhaging costs.

EUROPE - William M Mercer has appointed Yvonne Sonsino as a European principal. Based in London, she will focus on advising a portfolio of multinational clients on international benefit issues.

UK - Fears that an increasingly mobile workforce are a threat to occupational schemes have been greatly exaggerated, a pensions think-tank claims.

UK - Opposition MPs are urging the government to take action to halt the rash of closures of defined benefit schemes.

UK - Gartmore has strengthened its equity research team with the appointment of John Lambert as a European consumer goods and services research analyst.

UK - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, has poached two industry veterans to round up its international growth opportunities portfolio management team.

UK - Surrey County Council Pension Fund is halfway to completing its private equity awards, worth between £30-50m, according to its chief finance officer Mike Taylor.

UK - The pensions review, being carried out by former National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) chairman Alan Pickering for the Department of Work and Pensions, will only be successful if it leads to the disappearance of substantial volumes of legislation,...

FINLAND - To protect its stake in the Finnish occupational pensions market, Pension Fennia has adopted Finance KIT version 5.0, the latest upgrade from financial technology provider Trema.