United Kingdom

UK - Hiscox's FPK US Financial Fund has produced a total return of 54.1% over the past three years.

UK - The £1.5bn Exel Retirement Plan has appointed State Street Global Advisors to manage a £115m active pan-European equity brief.

UK - More than half of all pension funds consider SRI experience and performance when appointing a fund manager, a new study shows.

UK - Consultants are using a regulatory loophole to avoid revealing exclusivity deals they have with multi-managers, independent trustees have warned schemes.

UK - NAPF CONFERENCE: The Government has come under fire as one of the main culprits behind fuelling the UK's pension crisis at the National Association of Pension Funds annual conference in Glasgow.

UK - Labour high-flyer James Purnell has been offered the post of pensions minister, sources close to the government have told IPN's sister publication Professional Pensions.

UK/US - NAPF CONFERENCE: The National Association of Pension Funds has teamed up with US-based governance organisation, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), to unveil a new corporate governance joint venture at the NAPF's annual conference, Glasgow....

UK - The £78.3bn Local Government Pension Scheme is becoming "unsustainable" in its current form, a senior government administrator warns.

UK/EUROPE - Cross-border proxy voting systems inhibit pension fund investors from voting their shares and need urgent reform, a new report claims.

UK/EUROPE - A single European asset management market could boost the industry by at least e5bn a year, according to a new report commissioned by the UK's Investment Management Association (IMA).