United Kingdom

UK - Gartmore Investment Management has produced a booklet to answer the 10 questions that its former boss - Paul Myners who headed up the Treasury's review of institutional investment - said pension funds should pose their investment managers.

UK - Gissings has been appointed by Parity Group, an international IT solutions company, to provide a range of pensions and investment advisory services.

UK - Drinks giant Allied Domecq is to drop Fidelity and the Equitable Life as its additional voluntary contribution (AVC) providers.

UK - BAe Systems has revealed that Aon Consulting is performing an asset liability modelling study on its four pension schemes.

UK - The £5.6bn Greater Manchester Pension Fund has appointed strategic property adviser DTZ Debenham Tie Leung.

UK - Aon Consulting has issued a new briefing summarising existing employment rights and pension benefits during maternity leave and other periods of family leave as set out in current legislation.

UK - Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) is to lose two of its most senior executives, as Neil Dunford and Michael Philipp are to leave the firm.

UK - Unions have given cautious welcome to a Government proposals aimed at protecting the pay and benefits rights of workers who have been transferred from the public to the private sector.

UK - The decline in UK equity allocations for pension schemes will accelerate, fund managers predict.

UK - The CBI is pressing for changes to controversial accounting rules that could slow the shift away from final salary pension schemes.