Fixed Income

Cherry Reynard uncovers the themes and funds proving most popular with ISA investors this year

Advisers and multi-managers reveal the funds they are backing for adventurous, balanced and cautious investors this year

Simon Evan Cook respects the 'average investor' argument in the active v passive debate, but argues it sidesteps a crucial factor...

Pensioners will be able to buy bonds from the government with ‘market leading rates' to a maximum investment of £10,000, the chancellor has announced.

Friends Life is to pull a further £15bn of assets from F&C Asset Management by the end of the year, as it awards several mandates to a new investment manager.

Standard Life Investments has soft-launched a more aggressive version of its £20bn Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund and will roll it out widely in the next few months, Investment Week understands.

What has caused investors to revisit absolute return funds?

Hargreaves Lansdown received over 600 individual deals on fund prices before it decided which funds would make it onto its new Wealth 150 + list, Investment Week can reveal.

F&C Asset Management has warned it faces "signicant" short term headwinds following the loss of its strategic partnerships, as it urged shareholders to approve a £700m takeover deal.

Investors have a decision to make: stick with the expensive developed world or take a risk on cheaper emerging markets.