Funds

The investment landscape section of Defaqto's 2009 Sipp market review - Bridge Over Troubled Water - sought to appraise the asset types being used by IFAs operating in the Sipp market when constructing Sipp investment portfolios

I don't know about you, but I find most investment industry events and conferences deadly dull.

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.

The £60m F&C US Smaller Companies investment trust beat its benchmark by nearly 20% over the year to 30 June.

Despite ever-changing trends, the investment company sector has flourished over the past 141 years because of one fundamental attribute - the ability to adapt to change

Foreign & Colonial Investment trust has appointed Simon Fraser as a non-executive director and chairman designate.

Deutsche Bank's db x-trackers is listing fixed income ETFs on the London Stock Exchange for the first time.

I am not going to beat around the bush when it comes to investment trusts and closed-end funds listed on the main market, I love the overall concept and structure. And on most counts I would always pick a listed fund over a wrap platform unit trust.

Despite being considered out of fashion, investment trust warrants are back, but in the slightly different guise of subscription shares

Absolute Return funds appear to have come of age with the sector among the best sellers via Hargreaves Lansdown's direct to investors fund supermarket Vantage in August.