Last week's decision by the Swiss National Bank to cap its exchange rate to a minimum of CHF1.20 to the euro will not rescue the Swiss economy, said Jennifer McKeown, senior European economist at Capital Economics.

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.

WILL THE FTSE REBOUND BY DECEMBER?

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.

SHOULD YOU JOIN THE FLIGHT TO GOLD?

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.

The last few weeks have seen unprecedented market volatility as investors take fright at the ongoing debt crisis in the eurozone and a series of weak economic data from the US.

A selection of industry analysts give us their views.

If you are running an asset management business, probably about the worst thing that can happen to you is finding out your star fund manager has been fiddling his performance figures.

IS THE UK A SAFE HAVEN?