Europe

UK - Engineering firm FCx International has appointed HS Administrative Services to manage its retirement benefits scheme.

UK - Money purchase scheme members are being targeted in a new initiative to improve access to socially responsible investment funds.

UK - JPMorgan Treasury Services has now settled 500,000 foreign exchange trades through the Continuous Linked Settlement system (CLS).

UK - Investment strategy is the most important issue facing trustees, a new survey shows.

UK - Colin Ballantyne has been promoted to business centre director at Liberta Life Pensions & Investments, the business process outsourcing organisation to the life and pensions industry.

UK - Trade unions claim only 40% of fund managers replied to a survey of their voting records, but many high-profile firms insist they were never asked.

UK - Fund managers are leaving the industry in record numbers, research from Watson Wyatt reveals.

UK - Prince Charles is closing the Duchy of Cornwall's final salary pension scheme to new members.

UK - PIRC is recommending shareholders vote against a long-term incentive plan to be proposed by British Land at its annual general meeting today.

UK - Scheme concerns over remuneration deals for two Safeway directors would be addressed if the firm was not facing a take-over, the supermarket giant says.