United Kingdom

UK - Isis Asset Management wants trustees to demand fund managers give specific examples of where corporate practice has been changed for the better.

UK - The Financial Services Authority is conducting an "end-to-end" review of its enforcement process in a bid to speed up the system.

UK - Insight Investment has lost its UK sales director Robert Bailey to Framlington.

UK - Numerous changes to pensions law have made the risks and costs of final salary schemes unacceptable, the Society of Pensions Consultants' president claims.

UK - Baring Asset Management (BAM) has appointed Andrew Edgington as head of product development.  

UK - A private equity fund-of-funds with no charges for establishment costs, annual management fees or carried interest has been launched by ViaNova Capital.

UK - Expatriate pensioner Annette Carson has been granted leave to take her fight for equal pensions to the House of Lords.

UK - OPRA received more than 66,000 whistleblowing reports that were so minor they did not affect scheme members.

UK - Text messaging and online flexible benefit programmes are key to the future of defined contribution scheme administration.

UK - Annuities are unlikely to mirror interest rate rises, experts warn.They believe the historic link between annuity rates and long-term gilt yields has been broken by changes in longevity.