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MANAGED FEATURE

Our guide to managed futures and how to use them

Investment Week | 21 Oct 2011

Managed futures managers, otherwise known as commodity trading advisers (CTAs), are hedge fund managers who run mostly computer-based systematic strategies on a basket of liquid, exchange-traded futures markets.

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The turning point

In a warm-up to the forthcoming Senate Investment Conference, some participating fund managers discuss the ever-changing investing environment

Investment Week | 22 Jun 2009

Lessons learned?

Is experience the best teacher? Here we look at whether multi-managers who weathered the dot.com bust are faring better in the current crisis

Investment Week | 25 May 2009

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Crossing the financial desert

With frequent announcements of dividend cuts by companies, it is easy to see why the UK Equity Income sector is losing popularity. But many funds in the sector are still paying attractive yields

Investment Week | 30 Mar 2009

Aboard the good ship Artemis

At a time when the economic situation has investors knocking each other over to get to the lifeboats, Mark Tyndall, chief executive of Artemis, stands firmly at the helm with a more rational take on the situation

Investment Week | 23 Feb 2009

Enhanced Income launch offers returns with covered call options

Michael Clark's latest Fidelity offering aims to mirror his existing Income Plus vehicle

Investment Week | 09 Feb 2009

The future is green

Investment Week announced the winners of its first Climate Change Investment Awards just before Christmas and over the next four pages some of the successful companies are profiled. While Peter McCready and Cherry Reynard make the case for the sector as an emerging and growing asset class

Investment Week | 26 Jan 2009

Corporate bonding

With interest rates at a generational low, risk-free assets will provide minimal returns. So, what is the answer for bond investors?

Investment Week | 19 Jan 2009

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The three months to the end of October 2008 were grim for investors in European equity funds. In th...

Investment Week | 12 Jan 2009

The growth of ethic al investing

Ethical investing has grown into a near £9bn industry, and the asset classes covered are growing too

Investment Week | 17 Nov 2008

Focus on quality companies dictates GEM returns

Aberdeen's Emerging Markets fund stands at the top of its sector over one and three years, after bac...

Investment Week | 13 Oct 2008

How to negotiatethe ravages ofa falling equitymarket

Investors hoping that fund managers in the three IMA managed sectors would be able to protect them f...

Investment Week | 15 Sep 2008

Direct property essential for balanced funds

Despite economic headwinds building up a storm in the months since the Global Markets Forum, direct international property is still a means of protecting capital and generating income

Investment Week | 11 Aug 2008

Is extinction calling?

With a host of multi-asset and multi-manager funds on the market, is there still a place for the traditional cautious managed vehicle or could this type of fund find itself extinct if it does not evolve quickly?

Investment Week | 30 Jun 2008

Diversity rules

Some leading cautious managed fund managers discuss just what it is that makes their strategies so different

Investment Week | 30 Jun 2008

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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.

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

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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.

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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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