Analysis

The bond is a whole-of-life insurance policy and a way of investing a cash lump sum over the medium ...

Canada Life Income produces top returns over one, three and five years but has won little retail attention in the underused UK Equity & Bond Income sector

Top-performing bond funds have benefitted from defensive positioning, while equity exposure has propelled Santander offering to top of peer group

Cazenove's Tim Russell puts UK Growth & Income's recent underperformance down to lack of mining stocks and going defensive too early

The objective of the fund is to provide a high level of income with some capital growth over the lon...

Private equity investment trusts claim to offer a more liquid and tax-efficient way to access this increasingly popular area of the market

Manager believes blue chips will generate returns, as they boast best balance sheets

Funds from Allianz and SocGen top sector, with respective bets on export-focused companies and unfavoured large caps paying off

M&G Global Leaders fund has suffered in flight to quality of recent months, with numerous investors flocking to highly valued safer stocks

With several new players entering the UK market, exchange-traded funds are beginning to grow in popularity as a cheap and easy way of playing markets