United Kingdom

UK - Unions are urging trustees to look at how fund managers vote on key corporate governance issues when they hire them.

UK - Britain's biggest firms are bowing to pension fund pressure over carbon emission reports.

UK - Scottish Life has extended its no policy fee offer on its range of Talisman personal and executive pensions until April 5.

UK - There will be more people over 65 than under 16 within a decade, the Office of National Statistics' Social Trends reports.

UK/US - UK pension funds and insurers are backing a US campaign which aims at a "full separation" of the roles of chairman and chief executive.

UK - Jardine Lloyd Thompson Employee Benefits Group has agreed in principle a new contract for the provision of services to a range of AMP Group products.

UK/US - Barclays Global Investors is to launch a large-cap Chinese equities exchange traded fund that will be available to US and UK schemes.

UK - Mark Willmott has been appointed as institutional sales manager at Royal London Asset Management .

SCOTLAND - James Hay Pension Trustees has opened an office in Edinburgh to offer consultancy services on SSASs and FURBS.

UK - Pensions minister Ian McCartney has rejected calls to raise the state pension age beyond 65.