United Kingdom

UK - Investment management consultant Citisoft has designed a client reporting system for FF&P Asset Management.

UK - Supermarket giant Safeway has warned staff their career average pension scheme is likely to be axed if the firm's impending takeover goes ahead.

UK - A government consultation paper on same-sex couples could force schemes to amend their rules, a lawyer warns.

UK - Plans for a central insurance fund to protect final salary scheme members are "doomed to failure" unless the government finances it, industry experts claim.

UK - The London Borough of Greenwich Pension Fund has awarded ING Real Estate Investment Management a fund-of-funds property mandate worth £35m.

UK - Baring Asset Management chief executive Peter Wolton is to leave the firm after only a year in the post.

UK - Investment styles - not fund manager "skills" - generate the vast majority of scheme returns, SEI Investments claims.

UK - Hermes Pensions Management is trying to get planning permission to redevelop the centre of Leeds.

UK - The government should seize unclaimed pension assets - which could be worth up to £77bn - to kickstart a final salary central insurance fund, experts believe.

UK - Property investment manager Ashtenne has won £55m worth of mandates from the British Airways Pension Fund and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers.