United Kingdom

UK - Chesterfield-based packaging company Robinson & Sons has appointed Jagger & Associates as investment adviser to its £40m pension scheme.

UK - Pensions Management Institute is setting up a new group for independent trustees.

UK - Most final salary and money purchase scheme members fear they will not have enough money when they retire, research by Gissings reveals.

UK - Rebecca Collinson has been appointed group pensions and benefits manager at Kingston Communications.

UK - Schemes fear they could be missing out on high investment performers because consultants rule out fund managers that have undergone key personnel changes.

UK - Aegon Asset Management has parted company with its former head of UK equities Steve Laidlaw.

UK - Trade union anger over the closure of final salary pension schemes could be quelled if firms took a "more flexible" approach, a pension law specialist claims.

UK - Part-time workers are being given retrospective membership of the Co-operative Bank's final salary scheme.

UK - Insight Investment engaged with 94 companies on corporate governance and socially responsible investment on behalf of pension funds during the last quarter.

UK - Firms are being warned not to play "fast and loose" with FRS17 investment return assumptions to boost their waning accounts.