United Kingdom

UK - Higham Group Insurance Services has appointed Jim Gunn as partner at the firm.

UK - Islington Council is looking for a manager to run an overseas equities mandate worth over a third of its £347m scheme's assets.

UK - Henderson Global Investors has promoted Andrew Fraser as director of global consultants.

UK - The Exchange - an internet-based solutions provider for IFAs - has added a new tool to its "comparative quotation" services.

UK - FRS17 is having the "unintended and dangerous effect" of forcing pension scheme trustees to take a short-term view, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers fears.

UK - Eversheds has been appointed as the legal adviser to the trustees of the British Airways pension schemes.

UK - Royal London Group has appointed Robert Jeens as a non-executive director.

UK - The UK office of State Street Global Advisors has been presented with a Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

SCOTLAND - The £935m Aberdeen City Council Superannuation Fund has taken its first tentative steps towards a strategic change following its release of Friends Ivory & Sime.

UK - MTL Instruments has dropped Mercer Human Resource Consulting as actuary to its £13m defined benefit scheme and appointed Gissings as its replacement.