United Kingdom

UK - ABN Amro has opened shop in Frankfurt in a bid to expand its reach through Europe.

UK - Ensuring staff at BP secured their pension benefits when they transferred to a US firm has won Mercer Human Resource Consulting an award for excellence.

UK - Chris Hylen has joined SEI Investments, a provider of asset management and business outsource solutions.

UK - Former Sea-Land Pension Scheme member Mark Tonge is to become an OPAS adviser, despite having no formal background in pensions.

UK - A bitter war of words has broken out ahead of the legal wrangle between unions and the government over member protection.

UK - Software specialist Marlborough Stirling will help spearhead Royal Liver Assurance's entry into the IFA market.

UK - Institutional Shareholder Services is to launch a corporate governance index to help investors gauge and analyse non-financial risk in their investments.

UK - Ashmore Investment Management's flagship Emerging Markets Liquid Investment Portfolio has returned 3.1% for the year to February 16.

UK - Schemes should be wary of investing in media stocks due to the sheer number of corporate governance risks involved, new research claims.

UK - Ex-Watson Wyatt currency specialist Kurtay Ogunc has branched off into business on his own, founding the asset management/strategic advisory firm Alpha Dynamics Group.