CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron has grilled pensions reform minister James Purnell about the Financial Assistance Scheme in a series of parliamentary questions.

CURRENCY overlay managers add value to scheme portfolios, latest statistics from Mellon Analytical Solutions reveal.

TOTAL accumulated trades in the UK commercial property derivative market grew to £4.68bn by the end of 2006, latest figures from the Investment Property Databank reveal.

Protection campaign

Schemes doubled their investments in hedge funds last year, figures from Watson Wyatt reveal.

BALANCED pooled funds' performance slumped from 2.8pc in December 2006 to 0.1pc in January 2007, latest figures reveal.

Banking giant Lloyds TSB Group cut the deficit in its pension schemes by more than £1bn last year.

PREMIER Pensions Management has announced that founder Dai Smith has moved to the role of chairman and Paul Couchman has taken over as managing director.

Pension schemes have snapped up £500m of 50-year corporate bonds launched by supermarket giant Tesco.

Poor timekeeping is costing businesses £66m a year, new research shows.