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Hartford Life Insurance - part of the US$14.7bn Hartford Financial Services Group - has been selected by the County of Rockland, New York, as the sole provider for its US$96m retirement plan.

David Lamere has been named to Mellon Financial Corporation's now eight-member executive management group - the most senior management body - which sets corporate strategies and oversees daily operations.

The £400m London Borough of Hillingdon Superannuation Fund has appointed Northern Trust as its sole custody provider.

WestAM, the EUR40bn fund management arm of Germany's fourth biggest bank, WestLB, has expanded its global emerging markets group with two new hires in London. Glen Prentice and Daniel Tubbs join the group as investment analysts, bringing the total team...

Barclays Capital, Barclay's investment banking division, has appointed Hans L. Christensen to head its new US leveraged loan investment management business.

The London Borough of Croydon Pension Fund has chosen Hermes Investment Management to run a £220m FTSE 100 indexed portfolio. Ian Talbot, treasury head of treasury at Croydon, said: "We chose Hermes for four reasons. First, their corporate...

Barclays' fund management arm, Barclays Global Investors, and its investment banking division, Barclays Capital, have launched a new fund of hedge funds for European institutional investors. Dublin-domiciled BGI Diversified Alpha Funds (DAF) uses a range...

The $3.8bn Michigan Municipal Employees' Retirement System, Lansing, has confirmed its foray into small cap growth investing and hopes to appoint an investment manager for this brief in October.

Jersey has issued a consultation document on annuities which invites responses before October 31, 2001.

The UK government has proposed measures to speed up and introduce greater accountability into the winding up of occupational pension schemes.