United Kingdom

UK - Oil giant BP has been the main target of Isis Asset Management's socially responsible investment and corporate governance unit over the last three months.

UK - Royal London Asset Management has lost a £40m property allocation at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Superannuation Fund to Schroder Property.

UK - Barclays Global Investors has so far secured £128m from institutional investors for its new Ascent UK Real Return Bond Fund.

UK - Administration systems provider Comino made a pre-tax profit of £37,000 for the year ended March 21, 2002.

UK/GERMANY - Frank Kunze is joining property consultants Drivers Jonas as associate partner in the investment and financial services team, London.

UK - Final salary pension schemes are dying because they have shifted from their original design, The Pensions Trust claims.

UK - The pensions ombudsman has extended the jurisdiction of his office after taking on a case based on age discrimination.

UK - Ernst & Young is to press ahead with plans to freeze its defined benefit pension scheme despite legal attempts by employees to block it.

UK - Henderson Global Investors has appointed Chris Wozniak as director of global asset allocation in its fixed interest team, based in the UK.

UK - David Hynes has stepped down as chairman of the Institutional Money Market Funds Association (IMMFA).