United Kingdom

UK - JPMorgan Fleming - in conjunction with IPN's sister publication Professional Pensions - has launched its fifth and most ambitious annual defined contribution survey.

UK - Advisers to the government's Employer Task Force on Pensions claim they are being ignored.

UK - Pensions Investment Research Consultants hopes to sign at least four fund managers looking to outsource their shareholder engagement functions.

UK - Jardine Lloyd Thompson Administration Solutions has been awarded certification for the administration of pension schemes to a new internationally-recognised standard.

UK - Schemes and fund managers have agreed a new model contract - but only after a controversial clause aimed at limiting liabilities was removed.

UK - Companies must understand better the link between corporate responsibility and their own performance, ABI director general Mary Francis told delegates.

UK - Royal County of Berkshire's Pension Fund has re-appointed HSBC Bank Global Investor Services as custodian to assets worth £800m.

UK - Institutional investors must be wary of the credit ratings attached to companies and perform their own due diligence before investing, fund managers claim.

UK - Railways Pension Trustee Company chief executive Peter Murray - a former chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds - will retire in May.

UK - A major review of executive remuneration will be prompted by the Inland Revenue's proposed £1.4m lifetime limit, a new survey shows.