Baillie Gifford's Sarah Whitley says companies seem to be under-promising and over-delivering following the earthquake.

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Jon Curtis, branch manager of Charles Stanley in Eastbourne, explains why global mobile communications services provider Inmarsat could benefit your portfolio.

If bankruptcy is the inability to raise all the money in tax or borrow the money you need to sustain your expenditures from commercial banks and bondholders, then Greece, effectively, went bankrupt last spring.

With many headwinds facing the globe, it is going to be a long and colourful summer for equities markets, says Julian Chillingworth, chief investment officer, Rathbone Unit Trust Management.

Professor Shujie Yao, professor of economics and head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, explains how the sharp end of Chinese speculation could impact on UK investors.

Luke Hickmore, investment director, fixed income at SWIP, discusses why investors in credit will enjoy good returns this year.

For the last few years, the financial services industry has spent an inordinate amount of time moaning about everything from onerous regulatory pressures that fail to prevent systemic crises through to dreadful investment returns.