Fidelity

Royal London Asset Management has appointed Grant Hadland as head of consultant relationships in its institutional business development team.

EUROPE - Finance practitioners generally echoed the welcome markets gave to details of the latest, expanded eurozone rescue deal, but said the "eye of the storm" will now move to focus on Italy and its beleaguered ruling coalition.

JLT Employee Benefits has confirmed the appointment of Peter Ball as managing director of the recently formed JLT Investment Solutions.

GLOBAL: UN Joint Staff Pension Fund; Fidelity; SGSS;F&C; Alliance Bernstein; PBGC; BlackRock; Wurts & Associates; Kas Bank

Advisers have welcomed plans to introduce a compulsory code of practice for insurers which is designed to encourage consumers to shop around for an appropriate annuity when they approach retirement.

UK - Fidelity has appointed Paras Anand and Richard Lewis to head up its pan-European and global equities divisions.

US - Boyce Greer, head of institutional investments for Fidelity Asset Management and vice chairman of Pyramis Global Advisors, died on Sunday in a kayaking accident in Idaho.

GLOBAL - Now Europe and the US markets have been put in the ‘too-difficult' basket, managers and allocators have turned attention to Asia, a region some might feel is the world's ‘last man standing'.

Fidelity has launched a service it says will reduce employers' cost bases for auto-enrolment by limiting the affect on their HR, payroll and technology departments.

EUROPE - Investors are flocking to safe haven UK government bonds as they seek shelter from turbulent global markets.