United Kingdom

UK - Industry figures are split over the future of occupational money purchase schemes after IPN's sister publication, Professional Pensions, revealed mid-sized firms were considering axing them.

UK - GE Life has appointed of Dave Tyler as head of its new advanced sales marketing team.

UK/EUROPE - The International Association of Investment Management Sales Executives has appointed GR Communications as its administrator.

UK - Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has appointed John Brett as head of legal and technical services from Aberdeen Asset Management.

UK - The government's proposed Pensions Protection Fund will hasten the demise of final salary provision and damage business confidence, employers warn.

UK - GAIM Advisors - a subsidiary of Integrated Asset Management - has been appointed to manage the Condor European and Kingfisher Hedge Funds.

UK - Hermes Property Asset Management has pocketed £100m from a string of property sales in Manchester.

UK - Eight institutional investors are funding a pilot programme on collaborative approaches to active share ownership.

UK - Lessons learned from the self-invested personal pension sector could help make work-based schemes an asset rather than an albatross, a SIPP specialist claims.

UK - Higham Black Mountain - a joint venture between Higham Group and Black Mountain - has recruited Paul Jayson as a senior actuary.