Regions

Bank of Bermuda has appointed Philip Butterfield to the position of chief operating officer, effective August 1, 2001.

The US House of Representatives has approved the Chicago-based Railroad Retirement Board's (RRB) H.R. 1140 reform legislation.

The Irish Pensions Bill may be hampered by the success of Special Savings Incentive Accounts(SSIA) and a lack of public pension awareness, according to global consultancy Watson Wyatt.

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...