United Kingdom

UK - Corporate governance is no longer an optional extra for pension funds, proxy voting agency Manifest says.

UK - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services is set to review its triple-B counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Britannic Assurance.

UK - Richard White has left Fidelity Investments to joins Credit Suisse Asset Management as a bond manager, based in London.

UK - Work and pensions secretary Andrew Smith has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at a conference on the pensions Green Paper in London next month.

UK - Law firm Bircham Dyson Bell has promoted Judith Millar to partner.

UK - Mercer Human Resource Consulting has released its schedule of courses for trustees, pensions, human resources and finance specialists for 2003.

UK/US - Pension funds have been disappointed by delays to a treaty that is set to harmonise tax relief on pensions for employees transferred between UK and US companies.

UK - People contributing to defined contribution pensions only have until the end of this month to use a valuable tax break, Legal & General says.

UK - Official figures used in the pensions Green Paper may be wrong, MPs have been told.

UK - The Scottish Widows Investment Partnership's managed UK balanced property trust is looking to acquire a new portfolio of properties.