Europe

EUROPE - Eurochambres, the Brussels-based Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry, has reappointed its current president Christoph Leitl for a further two years.

UK - Financial services companies have become more confident in the last quarter than at any time in the last four years, a survey shows.

EUROPE - Europe will attract the lion's share of global cross-border property investment over the next three years, new research predicts.

UK - Northern Trust Global Investments is launching two enhanced index funds aimed at UK-based schemes.

UK - Only four out of 10 people are saving for their retirement and the majority of those are in occupational schemes, government figures show.

UK - Unions are threatening industrial action to stop Rolls Royce from making its workers bear the brunt of increased pension costs.

UK - Key Asset Management, the independent fund of hedge funds manager, has appointed Jaakko Karki as its new group chief investment officer.

UK - A group set up to regulate independent trustees has been urged to produce a code of practice quickly to "rein in the cowboys."

UK/IRELAND - Singer & Friedlander Investment Management has axed eight of its Dublin-based pooled funds and moved the assets into four UK domiciled vehicles.

EUROPE - Credit Suisse First Boston has streamlined its European pensions consulting activity to form a new European Pensions Advisory Group. The group, which will be co-headed by CSFB managing directors Giles Keating and Simon Ford, will advise both...