United Kingdom

UK - OPRA is warning insurers and administrators to improve service standards to trustees or face being "named and shamed".

UK - Liberta Life, Pensions & Investments is to provide outsourcing services for the administration of Barclays Life and Woolwich Life's portfolios.

UK - The £103m University of Bristol Pension and Assurance Scheme is looking to hire a manager-of-managers to run all its assets.

UK - The £35m Solutia UK Pension Scheme has appointed Frank Russell as its sole investment manager.

UK - Pension funds are still paying active management fees to firms which are closet index trackers, Bank of Ireland Asset Management claims.

UK - Computer Sciences Corporation has launched a pension outsourcing solution which, it says, is capable of slashing administration costs by 50%.

UK - Scottish Equitable's accreditation under the Raising Standards quality mark scheme has been renewed by the Pensions Protection Investments Accreditation Board.

UK - According to the latest APUT/HSBC Pooled Property Fund Indices property has, at last, lost the stigma of being the top performing UK asset class.

UK - Barclays Global Investor's BGI Endowment Fund III has seen its share price fall 39.4% over the year to August 31.

UK - Pension schemes in the UK have seen a dramatic rise in the use of specialist managers.