Legal & General

Legal & General Investment Management plans to merge its £34m Japanese trust into its tracker equivalent, with manager Andrew Nagele and team set to leave the group.

The marketing fraternity would have us believe senior citizens enjoy a Golden Age.

As we leave behind what was possibly the most dramatic year on record for the financial markets, what should be the take-outs for 2010?

After unforeseen complications put the structured products sector on the ropes, eight retail providers have banded together proving the asset class was down but not out

While the rest of the developed world benefited from significant amounts of liquidity injected via Quantitative Easing (QE) programmes, Japan had a comparatively tight fiscal policy.

L&G Diversified Absolute Return co-manager Ben Gill expects more groups to enter the global macro space

Leading structured product providers and distributors have created the UK Structured Products Association in a bid to give a unified voice to an industry that has come under fire in recent years.

Sales of UK life and pensions have slumped across the board as consumers limit insurance and savings to focus dwindling disposable incomes on debt.

The FTSE 100 kicked off the fourth quarter on a positive note in early trading, though shares dipped slightly towards mid-morning.

The FTSE 100 has opened lower this morning despite three-figure gains on Wall Street overnight.