Nest has announced it has reached £10bn of assets under management (AuM) and has also appointed two external additions to its investment committee.
Brian Kilpatrick has been appointed as a trustee director at Law Debenture, in a bid to expand its trustee team.
Paul Farrell has been made head of UK institutional at JPMorgan Asset Management (JPMAM), replacing John Stainsby who stepped down in May 2015.
GLOBAL - Pension funds are missing out on the benefits of using exchange traded funds within their securities lending programmes, industry experts said.
US - BlackRock's head of US defined contribution business Kristi Mitchem will leave the firm to pursue other opportunities.
Institutional investors flooded into commodities last year as prices soared. Industry experts say the asset class' popularity isn't likely to wane in 2010, as Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
GLOBAL - BlackRock's net new business totalled US$82bn in the fourth quarter of 2009, with pension funds and other institutional investors accounting for 60% of it.
2009 seems to have been a long year in the world of pensions - and a year many will, no doubt, be glad is over.
GLOBAL - TCW's purchase of Metropolitan West Asset Management may be a predictor of things to come as independent firms will drive merger and acquisition activity in 2010, investment bank Jefferies said.
As the year winds to a close, Global Pensions takes a look back at the top 10 most read news stories of the year.