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NETHERLANDS - Fiduciary management has taken a firm hold in the Netherlands as an increasing number of pension funds consider it one of the standard tools available to manage their investment portfolios.

INSIGHT Investment has appointed Richard Lloyd as head of structured solutions.

NETHERLANDS - Pioneer Investments has expanded its Netherlands team, with the appointment of Sander van de Giesen as institutional sales manager, Benelux.

HAYS has hired AllenbridgeEPIC Investment Advisers as consultant to its £400m pension scheme.

THE Pensions Regulator has stressed the importance of good record-keeping in the governance of pension schemes in a consultation launched today.

The Pension Regulator's decision to no longer backdate mortality proposals should give some comfort to a large number of trustees, Hewitt Associates says.

UK - Hays plc has appointed AllenbridgeEPIC (AEIA) as independent investment adviser and Alan Saunders as chairman of the pension scheme's investment committee.

TOWERS PERRIN has set up a capital markets subsidiary to advise schemes on risk transfer and management.

TRUSTEES of the £400m Newsquest Pension Scheme have allocated 10pc of the scheme's assets to two fund of hedge funds.

SCHEME wind-up victims who fell outside the scope of both the Financial Assistance Scheme and the Pension Protection Fund will qualify for help, the government has confirmed.