United Kingdom

UK - Aviva group chief executive Richard Harvey is set to be the new chair of the Association of British Insurers.

UK - Sustained pressure from pension schemes has prompted mobile phone operator mmO2 to release its first corporate responsibility report.

UK - Axa Real Estate Investment Managers has purchased three key properties in Greenwich through its REPE fund.

UK - Radical changes are being made to Watson Wyatt's training programmes after trustees complained they faced a "skills gap".

UK - FPensions were the Financial Services Authority's third biggest area of complaints in the six months to March, 2003.

UK - The Financial Services Authority's new chief executive will be John Tiner.

UK - The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has reported a £1.2m pension fund deficit after only its first full year in operation.

UK - Restoring confidence in the pensions industry must start with changes to the state system, a report by the Pensions Policy Institute claims.

UK - State Street has dismissed market claims that it is about to be taken over by financial services giant Citigroup.

UK - Threadneedle Investments has appointed Simon Bond to its fixed income team. Bond will be responsible for a number of institutional investment grade credit funds, working with David Oliphant, Trudie Rothery and Andrew Crawford.