Europe

UK - Scheme-specific funding proposals will put trustees back in the driving seat, OPAS chief executive Malcolm McLean.

EUROPE - If the politics of implementing the EU pensions directives lag across Europe, so too does the enthusiasm of employers.

UK - The pensions ombudsman's office is getting another eight members of staff taking the complement to 35.

UK - Rows over who will pay the costs of the government's Pension Protection Fund have broken out across the industry.

BELGIUM - Money-market funds have become the latest vehicle to be processed on Euroclear's cross-border fund-processing platform, FundSettle.

UK - The National Association of Pension Funds is backing the appointment of James Murdoch - son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch - as head of BSkyB.

UK - Basic salaries of top chief executives are rising at over three times the rate of inflation despite increased shareholder scrutiny, new research reveals.

UK - Hendersons, the UK-based asset management company, has activated IMS Enterprise, Russell/Mellon CAPS' daily security level performance and attribution system.  

UK - The suffering of individuals should not be the basis for long-term pensions policies, Watson Wyatt partner Alan Pickering told delegates at the recent Pension Show.

UK - Invesco Asset Management's deputy head of global equities Manraj Sekhon has moved to Henderson Global Investors as director and co-manager of the firm's EAFE funds (Europe, Australasia and Far East).