United Kingdom

UK - Baillie Gifford has launched an aggressive international equity product aimed at UK pension funds.

UK - FTSE has launched a new index, the FTSE techMARK mediscience, designed to reflect the performance of growth companies listed on the London Stock Exchange's new market, techMARK mediscience.  FTSE techMARK mediscience will benchmark small and mid-caps...

UK - Restaurant and leisure group Noble House has hired Invesco as its stakeholder provider.

UK - Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) has appointed Scottish Widows' Marion Colverd as its newest institutional client service team manager.

UK - Final salary schemes continue to be effective and should not be axed in favour of more high risk solutions, according to consultants William M Mercer.

UK - The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said it will bring in new rules under the forthcoming Financial Services and Markets Act if companies do not install internal whilstleblowing procedures to help prevent future "Maxwell-type" behaviour.

UK - Coates Brother Pension Scheme has outsourced its trustee secretarial duties to William M Mercer.

UK - Survivor pensions for unmarried and same sex partners are one step closer to becoming compulsory, following a bill proposed by MP Jane Griffiths.

UK - The Six Continents Pension Plan scheme is poised to cut the number of its fund managers after the scheme almost halved in size.

UK - Thursday morning in the High Court saw Wendy Mayall testify on the events in May 1997 that led to the breakdown of relations between the Unilever Superannuation Fund and Mercury Asset Management (MAM).