Regions

A legal challenge over temporary workers rights to equal those of full time staff in the UK has been sent by the Court of Appeal to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

Awareness of stakeholder pensions has leapt from a quarter to 40% amongst small businesses, according to the second Marks & Spencer's Financial Services stakeholder barometer.

The University of California's Board of Regent's has appointed David Russ as its new treasurer and vice president of investments.

Social security secretary Alistair Darling held a strategic meeting with a number of key stakeholder providers - including Prudential and Legal & General - to discuss the launch of the government's much-hyped flagship pension plan.

Royal Trust Global Securities has been appointed by CI Mutual Funds, Canada's ninth-largest fund company, to provide fund accounting and custody services for CI's C$23bn (£10.2bn) portfolio of funds.

Zurich Scudder Investments has appointed Merrill Lynch Investment Managers' Colin Robertson as its new European head of global strategy.

Maine's state retirement system has lost an estimated $500m as a result of the downturn on Wall Street and is now considering a review of its entire asset allocation structure.

Schroders, the London-based international asset management group, has been appointed by the Seventh Swedish National Pension Fund, (AP 7), to manage assets of approximately SEK 400m (£27m).

Clerical Medical has added two new products to their ‘mono' charge FutureProof pensions range in the UK.

New Jersey's state employee's pension fund has lost $8bn since June, according to a spokesman for the states Division of Investment, which runs New Jersey's state pension funds.