Global

Style Research, the London-based company which provides Style-based equity research and portfolio analysis services, has expanded into North America and appointed Bernie Nelson as business director of its new office.

Global fund managers Frank Russell Company (FRIC) has hired Suffolk Capital Management to handle parts of five US small cap growth funds.

Gissings, one of the UK's leading employee benefit advisory firms, has appointed Chris Massey as divisional director.

Cross-border property investment is set to rise and should ride out economic downturns as investments turn defensive, according to new research.

THE £7bn HSBC Bank Pension Scheme is setting up a stakeholder scheme for the bank's 2500 part-time and temporary staff.

F&C Management has won a £90m bond mandate from the pension fund of Octel, the petroleum additives and speciality chemicals company.

Lucent Technologies will use part of its $45bn US based pension fund to pay for the majority of the redundancy packages of up to 20,000 staff that the firm plans to lay off.

Nick Howard has been appointed as senior communication consultant at global advisory firm William M. Mercer, based in London.

Gary Bowker has joined global firm William M Mercer as senior employment law consultant, based in London.

Sweden's AP3 - the country's third national pension fund - is tendering two new equity briefs for Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) and Japan, worth just under EUR600m.