UK - David Crum has left the £9.8bn (€14.5bn) Strathclyde pension fund and will be joining consulting firm Hewitt.

Crum left as chief pension officer of Glasgow city's retirement scheme last Friday, the fund has confirmed.

"He is due to join our investment department in October," Hewitt told IPE.

Interviews for a successor will start in about two weeks, a spokesperson for the fund said.

Crum had been with Strathclyde pension fund since 2004.

Prior to that, he was investment officer and head of settlement at the Lothian pension fund, the retirement scheme for the city of Edinburgh.