Opinion

The staggering rise in the price of raw materials, such as coal and iron ore in recent years shows t...

The UK stock market is having to contend with high oil prices but it continues to make good progress...

Remember the 1990s cliché by fund managers that they were "not trying to shoot the lights out" but j...

With more and more money chasing fewer investment opportunities the returns from long/short equity f...

The Association of British Insurers' new guidelines on HIV ask insurers to question policyholders on whether they have been exposed to HIV infection by having unsafe sex. Many industry experts have slammed the new rules, arguing that the question is too...

The biotech sector offers a great buying opportunity for investors right now as they are cheap and f...

It used to be almost guaranteed that nothing of importance would happen in the City of London during...

The FSA has announced it will be proposing that pension term assurance (PTA) should be sold under ICOB rules as well as COB rules. What does this mean for protection intermediaries? Is there a future for PTA, and how long is the product likely to last...

Nick Dewhirst looks at the history of index development and how it has affected approaches to investment through the years

Whenever the marketing departments start to focus on short-term good news, you can usually bet there...