THE AUDITING Practices Board has issued a revised draft guidance consultation on the audit of occupational pension schemes.

FUND managers plan to spend more money on derivatives, research reveals.

TWO-THIRDS of open em-ployer-sponsored pension schemes are now defined contribution, the latest research from Hewitt Associates reveals.

The government is obsessed with a National Pension Savings Scheme rather than trying to repair confidence in the market, Scottish Life claims.

RESOLUTION Asset Manage-ment and Bryan Garnier Asset Management have launched new hedge funds for institutional investors.

THE PENSIONS Regulator has boosted its e-learning programme for trustees, www.trusteetoolkit.com, with the addition of two units.

LIFE and pension firms have posted strong first-half figures on the back of business growth fuelled by April's tax simplification changes.

Fears HM Revenue & Customs may stop trust-based money-purchase plans from paying pensions directly to members are unfounded, a consultant claims.

Scrapping pensions tax relief for higher rate taxpayers would be "catastrophic", warns Hargreaves Lansdown.

PENSIONS reform minister James Purnell has launched a blog to generate comments on the White Paper proposals throughout the summer.