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In the interests of getting a stronger voice, should the Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (AMII) be forging greater links with the British Insurance Brokers Association (BIBA), or will this mean a loss of direction?

Paul Davies reviews the way trusts and life assurance policies can be used to meet succession planning challenges and considers some of the issues arising

Diving is a popular pastime but can be potentially hazardous, even fatal. By asking the right questions at the outset the underwriters can ensure the correct price is charged for the risk, writes Jeff Barker

With news that iShares is due to launch swap-based ETFs "imminently" and with other providers hinting they too will start to offer synthetically replicated funds in the near future, it seems the industry as a whole is now more broadly willing to embrace...

Gary Mairs, chairman of the investment committee at TCF Investment, talks to Charlotte Moore about how the use of ETFs supports the firm's low-cost investment philosophy

Hartmut Graf, CEO of Stoxx, talks to Emma Dunkley about the importance of index transparency and the need for innovation to access new asset classes

More ETF providers are embracing synthetic replication, with the multi-swap counterparty model hailed as the next stage in product evolution. But to what extent does this already exist? Helen Fowler reports

The pickup in the global economy has enabled the natural resources sector to achieve strong gains, as Nick Sudbury reports

Bradley Kay at Morningstar discusses liquidity issues in the European ETF markets and how greater on-exchange trading will lower costs

John Fletcher, head of exchange-traded products at Charles Stanley, looks at how investors can differentiate between the growing number of ETFs