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Robin Hepworth, CIO of Ecclesiastical Investment Management, looks at the options now the supposed safe havens of cash and government bonds are out of bounds for most investors.
Investment Week counts down nine of the worst speculative bubbles in the history of financial markets, and wonders which one could be next...
There are close to 600,000 'millionaire households' in the UK, according to the latest estimates, but, as a share of total households, Britain lags Ireland, Kuwait and Taiwan.
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Joanna Faith asks industry experts what they think the next 12 months has in store for the global macro picture.
We look at key themes and events that have impacted investment over the past year.
As business confidence plummets to a 30-year low, Prime Minister David Cameron sticks to his austerity guns whilst leader of the opposition Ed Miliband calls on the government to withdraw ‘punishing’ tax changes….here’s our roundup of the top stories in the nationals.
Looking back at the weekend's national newspapers, your clients may have picked up on reports into unregulated investments, wills and pension fund fees...
Another year, another Japanese prime minister. Thankfully, when we buy Japanese equities, we are buying Japanese companies, not the Japanese economy and certainly not the Japanese government.
Andrew Milligan examines whether Western countries are facing the same fate as Japan following the 1989-1990 crash.
Japan has said it will consider helping to save Greece as part of a wider bailout plan as it looks to avert a crisis in global growth.
Barclays Capital is to list nine exchange-traded notes (ETNs) on the Tokyo Stock Exchange through its exchange-traded product platform iPath, making them the first ETNs and foreign securities listed in Japan
The FTSE 100 climbed this morning and Asian and US markets rallied strongly overnight as the Federal Reserve announced it would hold interest rates at close to zero until 2013.
Simon Brett, head of investments at Parmenion Fund Research, looks at how the unexpected can affect investment opportunities.
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