Morgan Stanley has launched the FTSE Gilt-Backed Growth Plan 7, a collateralised structured product designed to mitigate credit risk and protect capital.
David Coombs, head of Multi Asset Investments at Rathbone Unit Trust Management, asks if investors should be turning to risk-free assets?
Fidelity's Ian Spreadbury explains how the components of a bond work.
Scheme pensions are proving more popular than alternatively secured pensions (ASP), according to Rowanmoor Pensions.
People approaching retirement should seek professional advice on how to drawdown their pension as they are likely to take a double hit from lower gilt yields and falling fund values.
The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has backed the UK government's strategy to issue more long-dated, indexed-linked gilts and has called for a range of distribution methods to be available to help meet pension funds needs.
Canada Life is launching two funds focusing in gilts and bonds, and cash-based investments.
The government should take advantage of low yields and issue special pension gilts, Ros Altmann has urged.
The Chancellor is being urged to issue more long-dated debt by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), to help the UK in the coming recession.
City Financial's Strategic Gilt fund topped the IMA UK Gilt sector in 2007.