United Kingdom

UK - Neptune Investment Management has appointed Nicholas Boles as vice-president of marketing and client services.

UK - Consultants Watson Wyatt have launched a series of ‘real life' trustee seminars.

SWEDEN/UK - Swedish insurers Skandia have appointed Aberdeen Property Investors (API) to oversee all UK property assets.

UK - Scottish Widows' is to press ahead with the conversion of 74 unit trusts (UTs) in to Open Ended Investment Companies (OEICs).

UK - Cost constraints are preventing companies from outsourcing their pensions administration, research by Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow shows.

UK - Financial services e-business provider Aqera is urging the government to set up an independent body to give complete pension forecasts to the public.

SCOTLAND - Scottish Borders Council Superannuation Fund is seeking a manager for a new £44m specialist bond portfolio.

UK - The £4.6bn West Yorkshire Pension Fund has been praised by OPRA for quickly addressing a breach of pensions rules.

UK - The nosedive in equity values has returned the world's stock markets to "more reasonable" levels, Pictet Asset Management claims.

UK - Pension sharing orders are only being made in a tiny minority of divorce settlements, consulting actuary Hazell Carr Collins claims.