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Standard Life Investments' corporate managed pension fund was responsible for the Group's top decile performance over the last 12 months, according to new CAPS figures. The fund achieved four quarters of consistent out-performance.

The £2.2bn UK based Tyne & Wear Pension Fund has appointed Prudential as its new additional voluntary contributions provider, to run alongside troubled Equitable Life.

Schroders has appointed Michael Dobson as a non-executive director.

Schroders' Investment Strategy Unit claims that bonds are not a "safe haven" from market turbulence, and that equities will produce superior returns.

Sweden's third national pension fund, AP3, has put a $150m (£104m) US corporate bond mandate out to tender and according to a spokesperson for the fund, more active equity mandates are likely to be awarded later this year.

Suffolk County Council has awarded a £70 million UK property mandate to Schroder Property Investment Management.

Global Asset Management was the only UK fund manager to have produced a positive investment return in the first quarter of 2001, according to the latest mixed pooled fund results released by Combined Actuarial Performance Services.

South Tyneside Metropolitan District Council's £2.2bn Tyne & Wear Pension fund has put a £100m private equity mandate out to tender, as part of an overhaul of its investment arrangements.

Julian York joins UK-based multi-managers Attica Asset Management as head of portfolio analysis.

Ontario's Muncipal Employee's Retirement System posted a 6.2% rate of return for 2000 - a drop of nine points on the previous year, according to its annual report.