Europe

UK - Consultant Jardine Lloyd Thompson is looking to acquire one of its rivals, IPN's sister publication Professional Pensions can reveal.

UK - Talks over a new pay and pensions deal at car manufacturer Land Rover are deadlocked, trade unionists claim.

EUROPE - More than 25 of Europe's largest fund managers have joined forces in a bid to overhaul corporate bond markets and give scheme investments greater protection.

UK - The government has given what many will see as its final warning for pension schemes to embrace Myners's investment principles or face legislation.

UK - Pensions tax simplification plans have been put back following an 11th hour interjection from the Cabinet, IPN's sister publication Professional Pensions has learnt.

UK - Beleaguered financial services giant AMP has been given the green light "in principle" to demerge.

UK - Workers stripped of their pensions after their employers were forced into liquidation are meeting with MPs in a new bid to secure compensation.

EUROPE - European private equity fundraising is set to hit e20bn this year - the lowest level since 1996, according to provisional figures from private equity research firm, AltAssets.

UK - Credit Suisse Asset Management has appointed Norbert Beiner to head its European equity team in London.

UK - The £860m West Sussex County Council Pension Fund has reappointed Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker as its property agent.