United Kingdom

UK - Aberdeen Asset Management has acquired Edinburgh Fund Managers in an all share deal worth £36m.

UK - The £100m University of Bristol Pension and Assurance Scheme has hired SEI Investments to run all of its assets.

UK/EUROPE - Brown Brothers Harriman is hiring of Ciaran McNamee as head of european strategy, sales and marketing for the firm's global securities lending group in London.

UK - The government's moves to safeguard pensions will hasten the death of defined benefit schemes, Association of Consulting Actuaries' chairman Gordon Pollock warns.

UK - Sweeping reforms are set to give defined contribution schemes a greater presence at the National Association of Pension Funds.

UK - Local authority schemes worth more than £8.3bn in assets have tendered for replacement custodians this year in what could result in a huge shake-out of the market.

UK - ISIS Asset Management has appointed Sarah Gill as an Investment Writer.

UK - ITV sports presenter Gaby Logan will be the host for this year's Pension Scheme of the Year Awards.

UK - Schemes should be increasing their equity weightings and buying stocks which have been pushed down by a series of unrelated events, fund managers claim.

UK - Eileen Tindall, has been appointed head of treasury for the Mako Group.