Opinion

Many of the conditions that made 2005 a positive year for investors remain in place. January proved ...

A cynic's A to Z guide to the investment industry, where getting to grips with the terminology requires a degree in its own right

The Government hopes its proposed Incapacity Benefit reforms will see around one million long-term sick people back in work within 10 years. Will it work? And how will this latest proposal affect the insurance industry?

Although large cap growth stocks have been out of favour for several years, the evidence suggests they are due an impressive re-rating by the markets

In 2005, Japan was the best performing stock market of the major economies, rising by 43.5% and fini...

For some time the industry has been talking abut the boom in bricks and mortar funds. This has certa...

One of our most experienced international fund managers remarked in mid-January that there is a para...

After an exceptional 2005 for the Middle Eastern financial markets, it seems all eyes are now firmly...

Up to the end of the third quarter in 2005, companies with strong visible cash flow, structural grow...

The conclusion to this two part series looks closely at investment firms and who actually decides where and when to invest; it also considers the other players of the investment game and who takes the big decisions, and whether they get them right