Opinion

The corporate bond and life settlements markets have been the two big winners in the last 12 months in terms of attracting fund flows from advisers and their clients.

Regardless of the many news articles now claiming there is light at the end of the recessionary tunnel, many businesses are still suffering with the dual burden of increasing debt and rising overheads.

A year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the anniversary of the bank's demise has resurrected concerns over counterparty risk. Investors still eye derivative-based products and other seemingly complex investments with much suspicion and have become...

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Nucleus chief executive David Ferguson is going to sit back and enjoy developments in what is becoming THE place to be in financial services.

The FT's David Stevenson asks are investors getting a good deal from their investment funds?