United Kingdom

UK - Bacon & Woodrow is set launch an online management reporting tool in September.

UK - Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) has won a number of further defined contribution (DC) and stakeholder mandates that include Chubb, Carillion and the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service (OPAS).

UK - Employee benefit advisory firm Gissings has been appointed actuary to the London-based Davis Service Group final salary pension scheme.

UK pension schemes are diluting their UK equity allocation because they fear over-exposure to a handful of stock market giants, consultant William M Mercer claims.

UK Pension fund trustees must dramatically "raise their game" if they are to meet investor concerns about ethical investment, according to the latest Friends of the Earth survey.

UK actuary Punter Southall has launched a new investment consultancy targeting institutional investors, including pension funds.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has relocated its fund management arm to Edinburgh in Morrison Street, opposite the home of Scottish Widows Group.

UK exchange traded fund (ETF) provider, iShares and FTSE are to launch two new ETF products offering access to the FTSE Eurotop 100 and FTSE Euro 100.

UK London Borough of Haringey Pension Fund is tendering for a global custodian to cover its £400m assets, to be in place by year end.

Scottish Life Administration Services has been appointed to provide third party administration (TPA) services for the new money purchase section of the Cornhill Retirement and Death Benefits Fund. The appointment was made effective from April 6, 2001....