United Kingdom

UK - Aon Consulting has issued a compliance checklist for pension fund trustees following the Myners' review of institutional investment.

UK - Global Asset Management (GAM) has lured Ansbacher's Keith Guthrie as investment manager within its London-based multi-manager team.

UK - More than a third (37%) of companies within the FTSE 100 propose allowing their shareholders to vote on directors' remuneration in 2002, according to a survey report published this week by company secretarial consultants, Edis-Bates Associates.

UK - Balanced funds have posted a second consecutive year of negative returns for the first time since 1973/74, according to the latest CAPS Pooled Pension Fund survey.

UK - Robin FitzGeorge Balfour has joined fund of fund manager NIB International (NIBi) in London to head up its international institutional sales effort.

WALES - The £872.6m pension fund for the Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council may seek investment managers and a custodian in March following the outcome of a periodic review.

UK - The TUC will call for new equality laws to give equal pension rights for lesbian and gay workers and to other unmarried partners later this week.

UK - Britannic is looking to recruit four fixed interest investment managers to strengthen the areas of: Swaps and short dated gilts; UK investment grade bonds (with responsibility for specific sectors); UK investment grade bonds (including structured...

UK - The £2.2bn South Yorkshire Pension Fund (SYPF) has hired Standard Life Investments (SLI) as its new commercial property advisor for its £220m segregated real estate portfolio.

UK - Schroder Exempt Property Unit Trust showed the best performance of property unit trusts in 2001, according to the latest quarterly survey by the Association of Property Unit Trusts (APUT) and HSBC, who say their indices once again highlight the extent...