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With the sovereign debt crisis in full maelstrom and the bailout of Dexia bank unlikely to be the last of its kind, the threat of inflation would seem to be a long way from many people's minds.

The ETF market is the latest segment of the industry to ask itself this question. It is a path which in the last decade has been trodden by the structured investments and split capital investment trust sectors.

The autumn party conference season inevitably brings the issues of tax to the forefront of the political agenda, and this year looks set to be no exception.

"The future is not about equities, the future is about income." So said Stephen Drew, head of credit at Thames River, at the group's annual investment conference last week.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You have probably heard of the ‘nudge' concept.

The predictions of consolidation within the asset management industry come and go with the economic cycles and stock market volatility.