corporate bonds

MY FIVE KEY BOND TRADES

Insight Investment has launched the Insight Buy and Maintain Bond fund for Adam Mossakowski, aiming to provide diversified exposure to global corporate bonds.

Investors are struggling to find ways to beat inflation in the UK, with savings accounts paying virtually nothing and bond yields squeezed by demand, but there are a number of funds out there which can deliver for investors.

Veteran investor Warren Buffett has told investors Ben Bernanke's interest rate policy has been "brutal" for holders of bonds and punishing to savers.

The BBC is planning to tap the bond markets for the first time in order to raise capital, according to the Times.

Apple wowed the debt markets on Tuesday with the largest ever bond deal for a non-financial institution.

Henderson Global Investors has managed to reverse outflows from its retail book after seeing the first net inflows into the business since Q1 2011.

Franklin Templeton Investments has appointed David Zahn to head its European fixed income team following an overhaul of its strategy in this area.

TOP PERFORMERS

Investors in some of the UK's worst funds have been urged to dump ten serial underperformers from their portfolios in a study by Chelsea Financial Services.