United Kingdom

UK - The £60m Ryder Pension fund has appointed Hammonds as its new legal advisers.

UK - Improving office market rents will encourage schemes to "pour money into property" next year, Schroder Property Investment Management claims.

UK - A government adviser has accused the government of mis-selling in its own pension booklets.

UK - A review of the Financial Services Authority and the financial ombudsman service is being carried out by the Office of Fair Trading.

UK - The pensions ombudsman has penalised the Teachers' Pension Scheme for the "threatening" way it sought recovery from an overpayment.

UK - Stakeholder pension schemes are "failing to match up" to unit trusts, new research reveals.

UK - SCHEME cash will "surge" into gold next year as the sector becomes more profitable and easy to access, experts predict.

UK - A new qualification that aims to increase the professionalism of staff working in financial services has been launched.

UK - A new code of practice for equal pay has received parliamentary approval.

UK - JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management's Japanese and Asian equity funds have beaten their benchmarks for the year to September 30, returning 19.1% and 29.2% respectively.