Europe

UK - Small businesses and investors have been warned not to ignore the Financial Ombudsman Service and go straight to court.

UK - MERRILL Lynch Investment Managers has posted its fifth consecutive year-on-year rise in quarterly earnings.

UK - Muntons Retirement Benefit Scheme has chosen HSBC Actuaries and Consultants to take over administration and consultancy services from Gissings.

UK - Recruitment in the pensions sector has hit a two-year high, consultants claim.

UK - Jardine Lloyd Thompson has assured schemes it will take over scheme wind-ups "seamlessly" when Norwich Union axes its operations.

UK - Insight Investment has raised £260m for its Insight Foundation Property Trust Fund from schemes, institutional and retail investors.

UK - Property fund manager Jones Lang LaSalle has reported a turnover of £1.39bn from its West End investments and £1.7bn from its City property.

UK - Impending legislation is "scaring off" employees from becoming trustees of their pension schemes, Mellon Financial claims.

UK - Mercer has launched a new interactive modelling tool called Mercer Provecta aimed at helping companies and trustees understand how increasing life expectancy will affect their defined benefit pension scheme liabilities.

UK - More than 80% of financial companies claim corporate governance will be on their agenda for the "foreseeable future", a new survey shows.