United Kingdom

UK - The Centrica Combined Common Investment Fund - an umbrella for four schemes - has unveiled a raft of specialist managers after a wide-ranging review.

UK - The House of Commons work and pensions committee has launched an inquiry to examine the department for work and pensions' management of information technology projects.

UK - Norton Rose has recruited Martha Quinn as a senior associate in its pensions team.

UK/GREECE - EuroMTS, the electronic trading platform for benchmark government bonds, is to start trading in Greek government bonds from today.

UK - The Kodak Pension Plan has continued its £50m commercial property spree with the acquisition of two Surrey office blocks.

UK - Insight Investment has completed its development funding of new offices at Exeter Business Park on behalf of its client - and fellow HBOS subsidiary - Clerical Medical.

UK - Consultant Barnett Waddingham has put back six of its Pensions Tax Simplification seminars.

UK - Child obesity caused by poor diet could lower life expectancy for the first time in over a century, Food Standards Agency chairman John Krebs claims.

UK - Government efforts to boost the number of lay pension trustees will fail unless it removes the threat of "unlimited liabilities" facing them, lawyers claim.

UK - Offices have become the most reliable medium-term investment for pension schemes with holdings in commercial property, the latest information from Cluttons shows.