United Kingdom

UK - Insight Investment has continued its acquisition spree with the purchase of the leasehold interests in a London property.

UK - Standard Life Investments has ruled out a possible sell-off of its fund management arm.

UK - A pressure group has "named and shamed" 117 pension schemes over their investments in UK arms manufacturers.

UK - Cross-border investment in UK commercial property rose 8% to £6.9bn in 2003, according to a report by DTZ Research.

UK - Trustees have welcomed deputy prime minister John Prescott's intervention over pension benefits for members of a scheme in wind-up.

UK - Proposals by the Pensions Policy Institute to introduce a minimum weekly pension of £105 will be the subject of a seminar next month.

UK - Standard Life directors faced a severe backlash from policyholders for rewarding "disgraceful underperformance".

UK - Members of the Co-operative Bank pension scheme have been told they must share the burden of reducing its £140m FRS17 deficit.

UK - British Airways is asking scheme members to increase contributions by three percentage points to help plug the firm's pension deficit.

UK - Pensions tax simplification plans are flawed and will leave a litany of overcomplicated rules, a leading consultant warns.