Regions

Cazenove has appointed HSBC Asset Management's Andrew Ross to head up its fund management business.

UK's £25m pension fund for bathroom manufacturers Jacuzzi Group is on the verge of dumping Schroder Investment Management (SIM).

The board of Old Mutual has agreed to split the roles of chairman and chief executive officer.

Schroder Salomon Smith Barney (SSSB), the new division of Citigroup, has launched a pan-European smaller companies research and equity service, headed by Mark Rayner and Richard Taylor.

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) in Ireland has announced it will outsource over a dozen pension fund mandates for the EUR6.5bn (£3.9bn) National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF).

The $56bn Ohio Public Employees' Retirement System (OPERS) has put a total of $2.6bn in US equities mandates out to tender, according to the fund's consultant Ennis, Knupp & Associates.

Phillips & Drew (P&D) has been awarded a £100m passive global equities mandate by the UK pension scheme of oil company Conoco.

Houston-based investment house AIM Advisors has appointed Robert Lloyd to the portfolio management team of three of its funds.

Graham Hutton, CEO of Morgan Grenfell Private Equity (MGPE) - the private equity arm of Deutsche bank - has quit the firm following a failed buy-out bid.

The C$18.2bn (US$12bn) defined benefit Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) has appointed Douglas Carr as its new senior vice-president and chief financial officer.