WORKERS at APW Electronics are now eligible for the Financial Assistance Scheme - two years after their pension scheme wound up.

F&C ASSET Management and Insight Investment are among 10 asset managers who have signed a new investor statement on climate change.

A major study on corporate governance at EU companies has been launched by the European Commission.

British Airways is facing a battle on two fronts over tackling its burgeoning pensions deficit.

The Financial Services Authority has set out how it will regulate self-invested personal pensions from next April.

THE PENSIONS Regulator's 10-year scheme funding requirement is too long, delegates were told.

BULK annuity buyout specialist Paternoster has appointed State Street as its custodian.

EUROPE - Bear Stearns has made two further senior appointments as the firm seeks to grow its European focus, with Antoine Dijkstra and Dominique Favillier joining as senior managing directors to assist clients throughout the continent.

THE SWAN Hill Pension Scheme is set to invest 17pc of its assets into a fund of hedge funds mandate run by Stenham Advisors.

Coal Pension Trustees Ser-vices has named Geoff Mellor as chief executive officer designate.