Specialist

After several years of bad news for the holders of open-ended but suspended life settlements funds, there is perhaps a glimmer of hope.

Encouraging bond issuance in the sector

Follows recent hire

Industry poses inherent risks

Worst losses since 2008

Addition to Megatrends range

The endeavour of projecting today's conditions, trends and relationships into the future inevitably results in errors of judgement - and economists continue to get caught out by the ever-changing market environment (often at the worst possible times)....

Index plunged by more than 20% from peak

Q2 saw new lending of £507m

Toby Thompson, manager of the Brooks Macdonald Global Equity Income fund, analyses if equity investors are right to be concerned about the concentration of income from only a limited number of mega-cap companies