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Standard & Poor's Andrew South on European structured finance downgrades

Pictet's Denis Schmidli says megatrends can help the discerning investor find opportunities in long-term growth sectors

Marlborough's Jeffrey Lum says the technology sector can offer handsome returns for investors

When it comes to structured products, transparency is the name of the game with providers increasingly building in additional protective measures by packaging their funds as Ucits III Oeics, writes Martin Morris

Paul Burgin says growing numbers of advisers and wealth managers are building their own bespoke structured products

Julius Baer's Nathalie Flury on prospects for the life-science and biotechnology sectors in 2010

F&C's Mike Woodward says investment trusts can help higher earners caught in the new 50% tax bracket safeguard their wealth

Dean Newman of Invesco Perpetual says Brazil is currently one of the brightest prospects on the investment horizon

Standard Life Investments' decision to roll out a UK Equity Recovery fund last year proved to be almost perfect, with the vehicle launching on almost the exact point of the FTSE All Share's six-year low.

Schroders manager uses awareness of relative value to negotiate extreme market moves