United Kingdom

UK - Software firm CCH has launched the latest version of its pensions tax returns automation package.

UK - Companies are paying fixed- term workers more rather than let them join their pension schemes, a consultant claims.

UK - Squatters have taken over a £20m London office owned by Scottish Widows Investment Partnership and Henderson Global Investors.

UK - The £250m Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund is to appoint up to three fund managers once it has completed a review of its investment strategy.

UK - Schroder Investment Management and Baillie Gifford have both lost balanced mandates at the £775.6m Dundee City Council Tayside Superannuation Fund.

UK - Pensions software and administration provider Marlborough Stirling is to extend its services to Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (UK).

UK - The Royal Bank of Scotland is improving pension benefits for its part-timer workers.

UK - The £1.8bn Essex County Council pension fund is the only scheme to have managed a full bulk transfer of member AVCs from Equitable Life, a survey shows.

UK - Pension funds have welcomed new proposals that would force companies to declare share incentive schemes in their accounts.

UK - Hymans Robertson has appointed Karen McWilliam as a consultant.