United Kingdom

UK - Workers want pension contributions to be compulsory for staff and employers, a new report by Standard Life reveals.

UK - Plans by Equitable Life to compensate 16,000 victims of mis-sold guaranteed annuity rate policies have been branded "derisory" by a claimants' action group.

UK - Engineering firm FCx International has appointed HS Administrative Services to manage its retirement benefits scheme.

UK - Money purchase scheme members are being targeted in a new initiative to improve access to socially responsible investment funds.

UK - JPMorgan Treasury Services has now settled 500,000 foreign exchange trades through the Continuous Linked Settlement system (CLS).

UK - Investment strategy is the most important issue facing trustees, a new survey shows.

UK - Colin Ballantyne has been promoted to business centre director at Liberta Life Pensions & Investments, the business process outsourcing organisation to the life and pensions industry.

UK - Trade unions claim only 40% of fund managers replied to a survey of their voting records, but many high-profile firms insist they were never asked.

UK - Fund managers are leaving the industry in record numbers, research from Watson Wyatt reveals.

UK - Prince Charles is closing the Duchy of Cornwall's final salary pension scheme to new members.