Europe

UK - The three BA trustees who quit their roles over the move to CPI indexation have pledged to fight their corner until the remaining board members relent.

UK - Procurement of investment and actuarial services for local government schemes could be pushed into regional and national frameworks in a bid to harness efficiency savings, the government says.

UK - Standard Life's former managing director of corporate, Gerry O'Neill, has been suspended from his role at the firm.

UK - Pension schemes should be legally obliged to perform due diligence before appointing a fiduciary manager, consultants say.

EUROPE - Pioneer Investments has appointed current head of western Europe Fabien Madar as head of the Netherlands and Nordics.

UK/US - Insurer Aon said today Kristi Savacool and Baljit Dail will become the new co-chief executives of Aon Hewitt, replacing Russ Fradin who is leaving the firm to join SunGard.

UK - The Pension Protection Fund will use scheme investment risk for the first time to calculate the levy from 2012/13, it announced today.

UK - The first quarter of 2011 saw a 24% fall in levels of interest rate hedges by pension funds, research by F&C shows.

UK - Trustees of the London Stock Exchange Group's defined benefit plan have sealed a groundbreaking £203m ($329m) deal to insure its pensioner members' liabilities after reporting a £33m increase in the scheme's surplus.

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