United Kingdom

UK - Isis Asset Management has urged the government not to introduce legislation to curb excessive pay.

UK - FRS17 deficits at brewer and pub owner Greene King's two final salary schemes doubled last year.

UK - Achievable rents have fallen by 2.2% over the past six months, Jones Lang LaSalle's biannual 50 Centres Guide to UK Prime Office Rents.

UK - Increasing pension liabilities have forced Standard & Poor's to downgrade British Airways' credit rating to junk bond status.

UK - Allianz Dresdner Asset Management has lost Laurence Linklater, former chief investment officer for global balanced products, to T. Rowe Price International.

UK - Gunnar Miller has joined Deutsche Investment Trust and Dresdner RCM Global Investors as head of research for Europe.

UK - Firms' pension costs could be slashed by the government's moves to end age discrimination in the workplace, consultants claim.

UK - Buck Consultants is to hold a series of roundtable discussions on the government's action plan for pensions reform.

UK - IFA Millfield has been appointed to the BBC Pension Scheme IFA Panel.

UK - Nearly 5000 scheme members received benefits totalling more than £44m after independent trustees were appointed by regulators, new figures reveal.