United Kingdom

UK - Bibi Tabisim has left her post as client director at F&C to join the RCM institutional business development and client service team in the UK.

UK - The £320m London Borough of Bromley pension fund has awarded Crédit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) a £40m LDI/target return mandate.

UK - Investec Asset Management has appointed Terence Moll as a strategist in its multi-asset team as the firm looks to build its in-house hedge fund capabilities.

UK - In preparation for an anticipated growth in demand for pensions lawyers, Sacker & Partners has promoted three of its associates to partners.

UK - Principal Global Investors has turned its attention to UK investors by appointing Stephen Holt, previously of Santander Asset Management, as director, head of UK institutional sales.

UK - The government white paper on pensions reform did not fully explore all the options available for a better state pension foundation to interact with a personal account type auto enrollment scheme, according to the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI)....

UK - Mickael Benhaim has left AXA Investment Managers in Paris to join Pictet Asset Management as head of global and regional bonds.

UK - Christine Farnish, chief executive of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), will be leaving her post at the beginning of October to become public policy director at Barclays.

UK - The £6.6bn West Midlands Metropolitan Authorities Pension Fund has tendered an active specialist currency overlay mandate for its £2bn of overseas equities and a £60m currency alpha brief.

UK - Mike Taylor will replace Peter Scales as chief executive of the £3bn London Pension Fund Authority on 18 September.