The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has ruled against a bank for advising a client to invest £3.2m in a bond issued by failed US insurer AIG.
Standard Life has successfully sued its professional indemnity insurers for around £100m to recover losses related to its Pension Sterling Fund.
Counterparty risk, charges and complexity have conspired to give structured products a bad name, but there are signs advisers are turning to them once again
Three investment managers give their views...
The FSA has banned a hedge fund manager and fined him £14,000 for failing to spot attempts by an employee to hide huge losses caused by the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Nick Sudbury assesses the merits of the corporate bond sector and looks at how the sector has grown in recent years
Standard Life is suing insurers including ACE European Group for £100m over claims its policy should have covered a loss on asset-backed securities triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Good afternoon readers - below are five key articles from this week's IFAonline.co.uk...
On the third anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and subsequent credit crisis, Investment Week looks at the best and worst performing funds and sectors over the last three years.