Europe

UK/GREECE - EuroMTS, the electronic trading platform for benchmark government bonds, is to start trading in Greek government bonds from today.

UK/GREECE - EuroMTS, the electronic trading platform for benchmark government bonds, is to start trading in Greek government bonds from today.

UK - The Kodak Pension Plan has continued its £50m commercial property spree with the acquisition of two Surrey office blocks.

UK - Insight Investment has completed its development funding of new offices at Exeter Business Park on behalf of its client - and fellow HBOS subsidiary - Clerical Medical.

UK - Consultant Barnett Waddingham has put back six of its Pensions Tax Simplification seminars.

UK - Child obesity caused by poor diet could lower life expectancy for the first time in over a century, Food Standards Agency chairman John Krebs claims.

UK - Government efforts to boost the number of lay pension trustees will fail unless it removes the threat of "unlimited liabilities" facing them, lawyers claim.

UK - Offices have become the most reliable medium-term investment for pension schemes with holdings in commercial property, the latest information from Cluttons shows.

UK - An offer by some MPs to scrap their final salary pensions has been rubbished as a "token gesture" by leading consultants.

BENELUX/UK - Russell/Mellon CAPS has appointed Justin Begley as sales manager.