Europe

UK - NAPF CONFERENCE: The current system of occupational pensions provision needs to change dramatically if the industry "crisis" is to be resolved, keynote speaker Peter Jay told delegates.

UK - Consultancy firm Dunnett Shaw has appointed Margaret Steward, former head of HS Administrative Services, to its board as non-executive director.

UK - NAPF CONFERENCE: A flood of scheme closures are inevitable because the government is ignoring the pensions crisis, OPAS warned.

UK - Councillors running the Local Government Pension Schemes should look for the best result and not the cheapest option when considering transaction costs, delegates at the Local Government Pensions Investment Forum heard.

UK - The Local Authority Pension Fund Forum has brought its management and administration in-house in a bid to bolster the profile of the organisation.

UK - Isis Asset Management has revealed details of its voting record on almost 14,000 company resolutions.

EUROPE - Baring Asset Management's Emerging Europe Fund has sold its entire portfolio position in Turkey following the war in Iraq.

UK - Pension schemes should give members annual reports on their socially responsible investment and activism policies, research by a fund manager suggests.

UK - NAPF CONFERENCE: The "new kind of regulator" will be built on foundations laid by OPRA, delegates were told.

UK - The Association of Independent Financial Advisers has attacked government plans for an annual contribution limit on savings.