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THE LEADER

Why was Evershed vs Duffield so engrossing?

Investment Week | 09 Dec 2011

The employment tribunal that had the whole of the fund management industry fascinated ended with a whimper last week.

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Why questions remain over IMA plans

Back in May, I wrote a comment piece on why the IMA’s original plans for its multi-asset Managed sectors posed a risk to advisers and their clients.

Investment Week | 02 Dec 2011

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What does the US have to be thankful for?

This year’s Thanksgiving will have provided a welcome time out for politicians and markets across the Pond. It is also a time to reflect on the state of the nation as everything closes down for the day and people retreat to spend time with their families.

Investment Week | 25 Nov 2011

OTHER THE LEADER ARTICLES

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Who has it right on China?

Fidelity China Special Situations manager Anthony Bolton said the next 12 months should be a defining period for the country. In his view, investors will start to realise China is “not a house of cards that is going to collapse” and they will hopefully start to allocate more of their portfolio to the region.

Investment Week | 18 Nov 2011

Equity bulls shrug off difficult Q3

This quarter has been a tough one for the fund management industry as continuing uncertainty over the eurozone debt crisis hit sales and dragged down assets under management.

Investment Week | 11 Nov 2011

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The rules of succession

Two recent fund manager handovers have refocused our attention on firms’ succession plans.

Investment Week | 07 Nov 2011

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Do structured products deserve to be in the firing line again?

Another week another damaging story for the structured products industry. The headline ‘FSA fines Credit Suisse UK £5.95m for structured product failings’ undoubtedly sent terror into the hearts of investors.

Investment Week | 28 Oct 2011

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Editor's Comment: Advisers cannot carry RDR alone

Hello and welcome to my first issue as editor of Investment Week. I have recently moved over from editing Incisive Media’s sister publications Professional Adviser and IFAonline.co.uk, which have now been handed to deputy Scott Sinclair.

Investment Week | 14 Oct 2011

Is inflation the real risk to clients?

With the sovereign debt crisis in full maelstrom and the bailout of Dexia bank unlikely to be the last of its kind, the threat of inflation would seem to be a long way from many people’s minds.

Investment Week | 10 Oct 2011

Is it the product or the person?

The ETF market is the latest segment of the industry to ask itself this question. It is a path which in the last decade has been trodden by the structured investments and split capital investment trust sectors.

Investment Week | 30 Sep 2011

Tax one to know one

The autumn party conference season inevitably brings the issues of tax to the forefront of the political agenda, and this year looks set to be no exception.

Investment Week | 23 Sep 2011

The death of the cult of equities

“The future is not about equities, the future is about income.” So said Stephen Drew, head of credit at Thames River, at the group’s annual investment conference last week.

Investment Week | 16 Sep 2011

Fidelity opens fee floodgates

Fidelity made the first significant move towards greater price transparancy through its platform FundsNetwork by publishing the fees it receives from fund management groups from 1 September.

Investment Week | 09 Sep 2011

The search for the ‘new normal’

Markets entered 2011 with discussions about what the ‘new normal’ would be. This is standard investor behaviour because we all like to feel we have a handle on what is going to drive markets either up or down.

Investment Week | 02 Sep 2011

All we have to fear is fear itself

As investment markets become more unpredictable, so commentators seem to be reaching for more bizarre analogies in the hope of making some kind of sense of it all.

Investment Week | 26 Aug 2011

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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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Treasury calls for FATCA exemptions on eve of new proposals

HM Treasury is pressuring the US government for a ‘carve out’ on FATCA for low risk institutions, ahead of a draft paper due this week.

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Is now the time to snap up Greek debt?

London-based investment manager Exotix - the emerging and frontier markets specialist - is urging clients to buy into Greek debt and the country's stock market before it reaches a deal with creditors.

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Fund Manager Focus: OMAM's Stewart Cowley

Old Mutual Asset Managers’ Stewart Cowley has run the group’s £568m Global Strategic Bond fund since joining the company from Newton Investment Management in June 2009.

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Train: How I outperformed FTSE All Share during 2011

Lindsell Train founder Nick Train has revealed hefty positions in some of the more defensive stocks in the FTSE 100 helped him outperform the market substantially last year.

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