THE ALTERNATIVE Investment Management Association has produced a set of due diligence questionnaires for schemes investing in hedge funds.

White Paper plans could backfire as a result of Budget changes, the Society of Pensions Consultants warns.

UK- Synesis Life has appointed F&C Asset Management as its investment manager.

THE Conservatives want to set up a "lifeboat fund" for scheme wind-up victims.

JOURNALISTS at the Wolverhampton Express & Star are calling for consultation on proposals to close their final salary pension scheme to be extended.

RUSSELL Investment Group has launched a fund of hedge funds for institutional investors.

An environmental research agency has repeated its warning that scheme returns could be hit unless trustees take account of a fund's carbon footprint.

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EMPLOYEES can offset carbon dioxide emissions through a give-as-you-earn scheme that has already been adopted by energy firm Centrica.

SICKNESS absence rose last year with workers taking an average of seven days each, costing the economy £13.4bn.