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Rate rises: Are strat bonds the key to protecting portfolios?

Prudential's Williams: Fund objectives must keep the investor in mind

Missing out: Are investors paying too much for certainty?

Prudential has become the latest life company to report severely hit annuity sales in the wake of radical reforms to how people can access their pension.

Super clean and others; why fund groups took different approaches to passing on cheaper costs

Standard Life has secured discounts from 12 external fund groups across 291 clean funds, equivalent to an average AMC discount of 13bps.

Profits at Prudential UK fell flat last year, barely upticking from the year before, as the rush to sell onshore investment bonds subsided following the introduction of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

M&G has reported net outflows of £700m from its UK retail business for 2013 after slowing flows into some of its most popular funds.

M&G's highly-rated bond fund manager Richard Woolnough has said he would raise rates this year if it were up to him - but said such a move could present a buying opportunity.

M&G Real Estate and Aberdeen Asset Management have joined forces to create a new real estate fund structure valued at £210m.