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The UK's £700m Shropshire County Council Pension Fund has appointed Prudential as an additional voluntary contributions (AVC) provider in wake of the troubles surrounding Equitable Life.

The £913m Dorset County Council Pension Fund in the UK has appointed Prudential as its second additional voluntary contributions (AVC) provider, to run alongside troubled Equitable Life.

Canada Pension Plan's investment board is looking into the possibility of the Toronto-based fund investing in international and Canadian private equity.

The London Borough of Redbridge £240m pension fund has replaced Merrill Lynch Asset Management with Capital International and reappointed Schroder Investment Management as its two fund managers.

American Airlines travellers could be grounded by industrial action as early as mid-april, after US the flight attendants union voted overwhelmingly for strikes over pay and retirement benefits.

The £5bn West Yorkshire Pension fund in the UK has appointed Scottish Widows as its second additional voluntary contributions (AVC) provider, to run alongside Equitable Life.

Florida's State Board of Administration will begin its search for investment managers for its new US based bundled defined contribution (DC) plan on March 16.

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is launching a series of country-based exchange traded funds (ETFs) in the Far East as the investment manager attempts to build a considerable presence in the rapidly globalising ETF market.

Commerzbank's UK asset management arm, Jupiter Asset Management, will not be affected by the reorganisation of the bank's asset management activities.

Idaho's Public Employee Retirement System board is to meet to choose investment options and money managers for a new unbundled 401(k) plan that will be available to all participants in the system.