United Kingdom

UK - The UK Society of Investment Professionals is holding an investment summit at London's Barbican Centre on November 12-13.

UK - The Association of British Insurers has called on the government to fund pensions advice for employees.

UK - Carole Judd is to join Watson Wyatt as a senior investment consultant this month.

UK - Hazell Carr directors Graham Hazell and David Carr were the highest paid individuals in the pensions industry, The Sunday Times Pay List 2002 shows.

UK - Occupational pension schemes have emerged unscathed from an error at the Inland Revenue which overpaid rebates to savers who opted out of Serps.

UK - Citisoft - the specialist investment management consultancy - has appointed Geoff Fensome as a senior business consultant.

UK - Government moves to give the ombudsman power to process group claims from scheme members may have been shelved after protests from pension lawyers.

UK - Drinks giant Allied Domecq has come under fire from a City analyst for holding too many equities in its pension schemes.

UK - Independent Trustee Services (ITS), part of employee benefits firm Jardine Lloyd Thompson, has appointed Shona Goulds as principal consultant.

UK - Staff retention is the main incentive for introducing employee benefit packages, a survey by Nottingham Business School shows.