United Kingdom

UK - Friends Ivory & Sime chief investment officer Barry Sanjana is to leave the company on July 31.

UK - Pension schemes are set to increase their property investments by 10% over the course of 2002, according to property services firm DTZ.

UK - IFA Hargreaves Lansdown has welcomed proposals to simplify money purchase pensions.

UK - A conference aimed at publicising opposition to stamp duty on share trading is being planned by the NAPF and the London Stock Exchange.

UK - BITA Plus Consultants (BPC) is to change its name to COR Risk Solutions following its recent £2.3m acquisition by COR Financial Solutions .

UK - Pension schemes paid out over £14.2bn in retirement benefits to members and their beneficiaries last year, research by the Incomes Data Services reveals.

UK - Legal & General has been awarded a "Crystal Mark" by the Plain English Campaign for its stakeholder application packs.

UK - Independent trustees need to be regulated to prevent some charging excessive fees in scheme wind-ups, OPAS claims.

UK - Hundreds of trainee actuaries and administrators are flooding the jobs market now the Pensions Review is at an end, recruitment specialists report.

UK - Investors are being urged by the Trade Unions Congress (TUC) to vote out bloated pay packages at telecoms giant Vodafone, as the union threatens to step up action against more big names by year-end.