Europe

UK - Allianz Dresdner Asset Management has lost Laurence Linklater, former chief investment officer for global balanced products, to T. Rowe Price International.

UK - Gunnar Miller has joined Deutsche Investment Trust and Dresdner RCM Global Investors as head of research for Europe.

UK - Firms' pension costs could be slashed by the government's moves to end age discrimination in the workplace, consultants claim.

UK - Buck Consultants is to hold a series of roundtable discussions on the government's action plan for pensions reform.

EUROPE - F&C Management is poised to award Mellon Global Securities Services the back office administration of its institutional business, based in London.

UK - IFA Millfield has been appointed to the BBC Pension Scheme IFA Panel.

UK - Nearly 5000 scheme members received benefits totalling more than £44m after independent trustees were appointed by regulators, new figures reveal.

UK - The number of UK organisations offering flexible benefit packages doubled in 2002, research by Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow has revealed.

UK - Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group has appointed Edward Lea and John Maxwell as non executive directors with immediate effect.

UK - Legal & General has been appointed investment manager of an equity index tracker fund for the Department of Constitutional Affairs.