Why do offshore asset management centres remain popular and can offshore investors thrive under renewed global regulatory pressure?

Changes are afoot that will likely lead to a sea change in money management. Core wealth management funds have flexible asset allocations and are designed to keep out of bad markets and stay in good ones

As an asset, timberland contains the characteristic of many natural resources currently traded, stored and incorporated within investment portfolios, with a number of substantial benefits

In a post-Great Moderation world, changes in the real economy have become a much bigger contributor to market volatility. Since March, this has worked in favour of investors as the global recession has shown signs of ending more quickly than first expected....

The Conference season ends this week with the Conservative party rallying its supporters in Manchester, after Labour and the Liberal Democrats did the same over the previous two weeks.

So, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is gone. The dominant party in Japanese politics since its founding in 1955 was humiliated in the recent Lower House election, and faces the prospect of a sustained period out of power for the first time in its history....

The FSA recently passed comment on the perceived strengths of ETFs, but it is important to ascertain when ETFs are a suitable investment and when they are not.

British investors are currently battling between two conflicting forces.

Choosing a Sipp provider has never been harder. There are more than 100 out there, with new ones joining the marketplace every month. Carrying out due diligence on a provider before using them is essential, but how is best to go about this?

Markets are more than 90% higher than the low levels seen in March this year, which almost re-tested the lows of October 2008.