There have been two events within the multi-manager sector of the market occurring in the last two weeks - both quite different in nature - that are equally important and point a way forward for advisers.

Tim Bond, BarCap's head of asset allocation, is a fairly balanced chap and is paid to take a considered view of most things, balancing out competing forces at work in the global economy, teasing out how they will impact actual investment policy.

The Waxman-Markey bill, passed at the end of last month, sets out the basis for a new negotiating stance and will boost prospects for reaching an agreement in Copenhagen in December, without having to wait for US approval

Seismic changes in the way the US tax authorities intend to tax the returns on American senior-citizen-based life settlement funds have caught many fund managers on the hop

William Littlewood, renowned manager of the Jupiter Income fund during the 1990s, has returned to retail investing with the launch of Artemis Strategic Assets. This fund will look to use Ucits III powers to combine the best of both the unit trust and...

You all know I'm a cynic - you don't have to have read this column for long to know that. So it was with a slightly cynical look on my face I went along to a small debate about multi-asset investing hosted by Barings.

This is strange time of year for me. In July 2005, when most people in the UK were concerned with the threat of terrorism as a result of the bombings, I was in hospital.

It would be an understatement to say that global equity markets have been volatile in 2009.

What have hedge funds done to navigate the maze of the credit crisis?

With the corporate bond market now recovering, a higher exposure to credit is likely to offer significant potential for maximising returns.