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Like Investment Week, the fixed interest team at Invesco Perpetual is celebrating 20 years since they began to manage money. Here, the group's fixed interest team give an overview of running a bond fund through two decades of change.

Capacity crunch for platforms?

Commodities warning on global growth

One of the opportunities emerging from the resources scarcity challenge is replacement technologies and the adoption of ‘smart' materials. Pieter Busscher, manager of the RobecoSAM Smart Materials fund, highlights the sectors set to grow in popularity...

The UK is home to a world-leading computer games industry, and with the help of venture capital investors, local developers have recently brought virtual reality games to the public for the first time. Annabelle Williams speaks to Mercia Fund Management's...

Despite having a 20-year plus history, EIS, VCT, and BPR vehicles are still avoided by some investors - despite them being strong alternatives to the traditional pension investments currently on offer says Jack Rose, business development director for...

In the first of a series of articles on VCTs, Jack Rose, business development director for tax products at LGBR Capital, explores how VCTs work and what they can offer different types of investors

Are funds built to last or short-term fads?

Considering emerging markets as a single asset class is a mistake and investors must move towards a more granular analysis of risks and opportunities, just as they do with developed markets, explains John Ventre (pictured), head of multi-manager at Old...

Equity investors today seem to have only two options: to invest in expensive companies or those with inherent financial risk attached, according to Simon Gergel, manager of the Merchants trust at Allianz Global Investors