Regions

INCLUDING: GLOBAL - PIMCO chief returns to the fold; UK - Personal Accounts appointment, UK - More join UNPRI, UK - F&C appointment

INCLUDING: KOREA - National Pension Fund outsourced; UK - HSBC under pressure; US - Delphi freezes pension plans

GLOBAL - Mercer Human Resource Consulting has rebranded its global operations under the single umbrella name ‘Mercer'.

INCLUDING: UK - Bush rejoins Hewitt; US - Mellon Transition Management new President and COO; UK - Investec appoints global equities specialist; Europe - Huge growth in volumes of ETFs; IRELAND - Pensions Board prosecutes employer.

INCLUDING: FRANCE - French unions wary of pension reform; US - Court upholds pension case; CHINA - China to issue 20 pension licenses in Oct; ISRAEL - Israel wants US pension funds to shun Iran-linked firms; RUSSIA - Russian investor targets pensions...

GLOBAL - Investment consultants have questioned whether the majority of pension funds will implement 130 / 30 strategies, despite a new study claiming the philosophy is not a passing fad.

UK / FRANCE - Insight Investment has awarded distribution rights to Cohen Brothers Financial Services for the French institutional market in an expansion of Insight's European expansion strategy.

INCLUDING: UK -Mercer hire; CANADA - CPP developments; UK - BGI's new strategy chief; UK - PPF appoints two new non-executive board members

INCLUDING: GLOBAL - Northern Trust CIO appointment; UK - SEI wins three DB mandates; UK - Watson Wyatt shows the way to change; ASIA -New Asian fund of funds; UK - Drive for Hewitt; UK - Deregulation debate; UK- Barnett Waddingham hire

GLOBAL - Global Pensions has found transition managers are experiencing unprecedented volumes of business, due to pension funds switching asset classes and asset managers underperforming.