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Why the eurozone has more than 12 months left

Investment Week | 08 Feb 2012

Muzinich's Tatjana Greil Castro assesses the impact of a country leaving the eurozone.

The Big Question: What is the best way to add risk back to portfolios?

As investors start to take on more risk we ask managers for their strategies in this environment.

Investment Week | 27 Jan 2012

Conjecture: Fixed Income

In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from Aberdeen Asset Management, Rathbone Unit Trust Management, Smith & Williamson Investment Management and S&P Capital IQ discussed Fixed Income.

Investment Week | 13 Jan 2012 | screening image

OMAM's Cowley warns on gilt funds

Old Mutual Asset Managers' bond fund manager Stewart Cowley has warned investors in gilt funds face major headwinds in 2012, after falls in yields to record lows left them with little protection from coupons if prices start to come down.

Investment Week | 06 Jan 2012

Spanish hedge fund threatens to sue over Greek bond losses

Madrid-based hedge fund Vega Asset Management has threatened to take legal action against officials negotiating Greece's debt restructuring if its bond losses turn out to be too deep.

Investment Week | 22 Dec 2011

Spanish bond auction boosts euro

Investors showed renewed confidence in Spain today, as a government bond auction saw excessive demand.

Investment Week | 20 Dec 2011

Christmas naivety: Being economical with the truth

It is over four years since the financial crisis began, and by now you would have thought we would understand all the factors that drove the building of and, since 2007, the destruction of the foundations of world economic growth.

Investment Week | 12 Dec 2011

Italy forced to pay record rates at bond auction

Italy has been forced to pay record interest rates in a 10bn euro ($13bn; £9bn) auction of treasury bills.

Investment Week | 25 Nov 2011

SWIP Sterling Credit Advantage fund switches sector

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership's (SWIP) £1.1bn Sterling Credit Advantage fund, managed by Roger Webb, has been moved into the Specialist sector with immediate effect.

Investment Week | 11 Nov 2011

Pub issues own bonds to raise cash

A pub has issued its own £500 bonds in an attempt to raise money.

Investment Week | 11 Nov 2011

Gross claws back from bottom after October risk rally

The world's biggest bond investor Bill Gross has regained his top spot amongst his peers as investors piled back in to riskier assets.

Investment Week | 04 Nov 2011

Milburn: If I were the leader of Europe

Kames Capital's Phil Milburn said Greece should be forced to leave the euro and Portuguese and Irish defaults pushed through as he outlines his solutions for the eurozone debt crisis.

Investment Week | 02 Nov 2011

Snowden bought French banks ahead of the rally

Stephen Snowden has upped risk on the Kames Investment Grade Bond fund by "aggressively" increasing exposure to banks and topping up high yield on the view the bottom of the market has already been reached.

Investment Week | 28 Oct 2011

Cameron promises crackdown as gilt traders exploit QE

Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that bankers caught manipulating the market to take advantage of QE can expect to face criminal prosecution.

Investment Week | 27 Oct 2011

BlackRock Corporate Bond manager Shuttleworth quits

Paul Shuttleworth, manager of the £115m BlackRock Corporate Bond fund, has resigned after 11 years at the firm.

Investment Week | 11 Oct 2011

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EDITOR'S CHOICE

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View from the Bridge: Investment biker

Being a long time motorbiker, I am very conscious of the ever present threat that comes from being unaware of what is in front of you.

Jupiter tops Alpha Manager provider list

Jupiter Unit Trust Managers employs the most FE Alpha Managers with 12 on the newly revealed list for 2012.

Gosling's Grouse: Baying for blood

When a phlebotomist sticks a needle in a vein you pay attention. He or she has you just where they want you.

FDR, Reagan, Clinton or Obama: When were markets strongest?

Three years into Barack Obama's term as US president, how do equity market returns under this administration compare with those seen under previous leaders?

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