Europe

UK - Denton Wilde & Sapte is to offer mobile phones to its staff through a salary sacrifice arrangement.

UK - Patrick Cosgrave has replaced Paul Couchman as Mercer Human Resource Consulting's head of pensions administration.

UK - Self-invested personal pension specialist James Hay has launched a product aimed for self-advising clients with liquid assets in excess of £250,000.

UK - More than 80% of advisers believe the Pension Protection Fund will fail, new research reveals.

UK - The average contribution to a stakeholder pension is just £720 a year, trade union research shows.

UK - Unions have dismissed Royal Mail plans to improve attendance by giving staff the chance to win a car as "a gimmick".

UK - Annual bonuses for executives lack disclosure and are often poorly linked to company performance, an academic study shows.

UK - More than 6000 manufacturers will be asked about the merits of compulsion in a survey by the employers' federation EEF and Aon Consulting.

UK - Boutique fund managers will benefit from the move towards high alpha mandates - even though the sector is dominated by large established houses, Hymans Robertson claims.

UK/US - US equity managers' short-term performance will be hit if they invest in internet giant Google, global ratings agency Standard & Poor's warns.