Investec

Incapital and Investec were the big winners at the Protected Product Review Structured Product Awards 2010, picking up three gongs each.

Investors have a growing need for income but the biggest question they face is how this should be generated in the current environment.

HAPPY 100th B'DAY FED

In the ten years of running Investec's Cautious Managed fund, Alastair Mundy has built a reputation of being one of the UK's top contrarian investors.

Investec is planning to securitise £250m worth of ‘non-standard' mortgages, including self-certified and subprime home loans in the UK.

ALASTAIR MUNDY Q&A

Schroders CIO Alan Brown has urged investors to undertake a major rethink of their traditional asset allocation models after the credit crunch exposed the dangers of static portfolio construction.

Despite previous reticence to invest in local currency emerging market debt, advisers are growing more comfortable with the idea, writes Joanna Faith.

Fund groups have warned the RDR will lead to increased volatility in fund flows and a greater share of assets going to a handful of the larger asset managers.

Philip Saunders and Max King, multi-asset portfolio managers at Investec, give five reasons to be positive