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Adrian Corkill, Canada Life International's marketing manager explains how the principles of pound cost averaging can provide opportunities in the downturn.

What is absolute return investing?

Many IFAs use structured products as a matter of course when constructing client portfolios.

Caution heralds opportunity With concerns about inflation and rising interest rates, market participants have become very cautious on global interest rates.

In a turbulent market that is affecting all asset classes, don't you just find many of your clients are favouring the quiet life. For many investors, steady returns on a year in year out basis may sound like a cautious, but attractive option....

The first thing to say about structured products is that we should probably call them something else. All products and investments are structured in some sense.

IFA firms are normally valued as a multiple of renewal income plus a factor for goodwill built up through strong client relationships.

Increasingly at Cater Allen, we are finding that IFAs are turning to us in their need to invest clients' cash funds across multiple banks, in order to spread the saving risk.

A consistent outperformer in UK equities The SWIP UK Advantage Fund has delivered consistent top quartile returns over a five-year period. Peter Cockburn, the Fund's manager, believes that investing in a range of UK equities will boost the Fund's returns...

Gary Dale head of intermediary sales, Investec Structured Products, answers questions from Tim Mortimer of Future Value Consultants on the current state of the UK structured products market.