United Kingdom

UK - Marks & Spencer has appointed Lynn Collins as group pensions manager, following the retirement of John Peachey.

UK - Australian manager-of-manager firm MLC is moving into the UK with a targeted push through IFAs.

UK - Pensions administrator Heywood has been reappointed to the UK Atomic Energy Authority Pension Scheme for a further five years.

UK - Stock market gains were wiped out by increases in scheme liabilities last year, Watson Wyatt claims.

UK - Henderson Global Investors has joined the Institutional Money Market Funds Association.

UK - iimia, the independent investment management firm, has appointed Henry Digby as head of multi manager portfolio services.

UK - A three-pronged strategy to help ease the pensions crisis has been unveiled by Conservative work and pensions spokesman David Willetts.

UK - Confidence among institutional investors has fallen, research from State Street Associates shows.

UK - Third-party administrator HS Administrative Services has adopted Profund's new software system.

UK - Publisher DC Thomson has taken a pension contribution holiday despite a fall of £108m in the value of its scheme's assets.