Europe

UK - Aon Asset Management has appointed State Street as administrator and custodian of its multi-manager fund.

EUROPE - If cross-border pensions within Europe are hard enough, to achieve closer cross-border arrangements in a wider context for multinationals with global coverage might seem well nigh impossible.

UK - Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has appointed Tim Scholefield head of international research and global sectors.

UK - Royal Liver Assurance has completed a major redesign of its website in a bid to boost the information that it provides IFAs and other customers.

UK - Excluding council tax rises from inflation measures could halve pension increases, the Conservative Party says.

UK - Residential property returns continued to rise last year, new figures from Investment Property Databank show.

UK - Isis Asset Management has called on fund managers to follow its lead and waive initial charges when schemes reinvest dividends in DC funds.

UK - The Raising Standards of Pensions Administration steering group has launched a website in a bid to boost its campaign for better standards.

SCOTLAND - The Church of Scotland is facing a pensions scheme deficit of more than £50m.

UK - Consultant Jardine Lloyd Thompson and law firm Norton Rose are gearing up for the second in a series of three seminars to focus on pensions and employee benefits.