UK - Fledgling "no gain, no fee" fund manager Bedlam will only be charging for one of its three funds - unless performance improves in the next month.
UK - Old Mutual Asset Managers has launched two long/short equity funds, taking its range of alternative products to three.
UK - Raj Mody and Andy Staddon are to take over the running of Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow's Leeds office.
UK - Examples of how life and pension companies have reduced running costs of closed book operations will be outlined at a seminar in London next month.
UK - Steel castings company William Cook has appointed Jagger & Associates to act as investment adviser to its pension scheme.
UK - Pension schemes are opposing government moves to make them a priority creditor in company insolvencies.
UK - There will be more over-65s than under-16s by 2014, latest projections from the Office for National Statistics show.
UK - The UK Government has published, to general industry disappointment, its Green Paper and Tax Simplification proposals in response to the Pickering and Sandler reports published in summer 2002.
UK - The Inland Revenue is to cease publishing paper copies of its manuals and updates from November 30.
UK - Consuelo Brooke, former head of the European specialist equity team at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, has joined the specialised global equity fund manager Philippe Investment Management (PIM), as a director and member of its investment committee....