PruProtect has launched two new income protection (IP) products and enhanced its life cover policy to include those living with HIV.

Insight is bringing its Absolute Insight Credit fund to market this quarter to be run by Alex Veroude, head of credit at the group.

About two years ago in this very blog, I debated how good it would be if we could have 'storyline placement' in soap operas and reality TV shows.

As investors are faced with the twin spectres of short-term deflation and long-term inflation, long only fixed income managers face a difficult environment.

The last two years - with the advent of the credit crisis in August 2007 when the US housing market began to correct in a widespread manner - has seen equity markets go through regular periods of severely reduced liquidity.

Against the backdrop of the credit crunch, absolute return funds have come the fore, but the investment strategies used are not a new phenomenon and have been around for six decades

Despite what some providers would like you to believe, there is nothing mystical or even that new about the concept of 'absolute' return funds - they have been around in one form or another since the advent of pooled funds.

As investors are faced with the twin spectres of short-term deflation and long-term inflation, long-only fixed-income managers face a difficult environment. In such a situation, an absolute return approach to fixed-income investing could be worth considering....

Mayfair-based IFA Bestinvest is looking to recruit several investment advisers and managers as it reacts to a growing demand for advice.

The US reporting season has pushed earnings expectations down to realistic levels and is already delivering some positive surprises, says Threadneedle's Cormac Weldon.