Europe

UK - Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has appointed Peter Cockburn as investment director of UK equities from troubled Edinburgh Fund Managers.

UK - More than a third of workers "do not care" how much their pension will be worth on retirement, research from KPMG reveals.

UK - Giles Calvert-Lee, formerly of ING Real Estate, has joined Schroder Property Investment Management as office sector fund manager of the Schroder Exempt Property Unit Trust (SEPUT).

UK - New corporate governance guidelines that require companies to publish levels of abstentions have been welcomed by Pensions Investment Research Consultants.

UK - Pension funds will target the remuneration report of property development group Berkeley Group at its annual general meeting on August 22.

UK - Threadneedle Investments has strengthened its fixed income team with the appointment of Quentin Fitzsimmons.

UK - AXA UK's interim results reveal a 27% reduction in revenues for its life and savings business.

UK - The state-funded Race Equality Council's final salary scheme is facing the axe.

UK - Law firm CMS Cameron McKenna will hold a trustee training course in London on October 2.

UK - Trustees are realising the "brutal truth" that occupational money purchase schemes are not simple to run, independent firms have told IPN's sister publication, Professional Pensions.