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Elliot Farley, fund manager at T. Bailey, explains how inflation has caused a dynamic shift in what we traditionally perceive to be low-risk assets.

James Wilkinson, manager of the Thames River Property team, explains why long-term opportunities for listed real estate are more positive now than before the credit crisis.

Andrew Sentance has predicted inflation could rise above 5% this year and repeated his calls for a gradual increase in interest rates and cutting off of monetary stimulus.

The pound reached a 14-month high this morning, after data revealed UK inflation soared to 4.4% in February.

With news inflation jumped to 4.4% in February and gold prices still soaring, Joanna Faith looks at some alternative hedges.

The switch from RPI to CPI for pension indexation moved one step further in the legislative process yesterday after it was approved in the House of Lords.

Occupational pension scheme members have attacked the switch in indexing benefits to CPI inflation as a Treasury cost-saving exercise aimed at benefitting business over pensioners.

Final salary pension scheme members could see a 4% cut in benefits after the BoE used miscalculated inflation rates for more than a decade, experts say.

Labour MPs yesterday accused the coalition government of 'short changing' the armed forces by indexing their pensions to CPI rather than RPI.

Ian Lowes of StructuredProductReview.com takes an in-depth look at the Jubilee Financial Products Inflation Linked Income Plan