United Kingdom

UK - Northern Trust has launched an investment-monitoring package that will enable schemes to determine the impact of market events on their portfolios.

UK - Insurance giant Prudential is facing union unrest after talks over the future of the firm's pension provision stalled.

UK/EUROPE - Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) is going all out to capture the traditional business of consultants in launching its own asset advice service which encroaches further up the pensions management supply chain than any fund manager has...

UK - Watson Wyatt has pumped £3.3m into its pension scheme in a bid to stem a soaring pensions deficit.

UK - Jardine Lloyd Thompson has made two new appointments to its Glasgow-based consulting and actuarial team.

UK - State Street has named Peter Adams as London head of its UK Pensions Servicing team.

UK - A major survey of pensions funds has concluded that investment consultant firms should not offer manager-of-manager services.

SCOTLAND - Heath Lambert Consulting has appointed Douglas Walker as business development manager for its corporate pensions and benefits team.

UK - Cleveland Police Force is investigating ex-officers' pension entitlements in a clampdown on the number of staff receiving ill-health benefits.

UK - Scheme deficits at Britain's biggest 100 firms soared to £55bn in the past 12 months, a survey by Lane, Clark & Peacock shows.