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The FSA recently passed comment on the perceived strengths of ETFs, but it is important to ascertain when ETFs are a suitable investment and when they are not.

Choosing a Sipp provider has never been harder. There are more than 100 out there, with new ones joining the marketplace every month. Carrying out due diligence on a provider before using them is essential, but how is best to go about this?

Absolute return investing is the latest trend sweeping the investment world, but investors who do not have the necessary hedge fund experience need to proceed with caution...

A healthy increase in enhanced annuity sales has been heralded as a sure sign of progress by the industry. Latest figures show Q2 sales were up 30% on last year and accounted for 17% of all annuities written

Neptune UK Equity manager combines 15-year stockpicking experience with group's top-down process to achieve consistent outperformance

This week's Conjecture panel consider the effect the Lehman Brothers collapse had on the structured products sector

With one person every four minutes declared bankrupt and one in 33 workers estimated to be unemployed by the year end, companies are shifting strategies towards debt minimisation

When there are significant changes in dividend trends, it is important to understand the practices FTSE applies to determine the annual dividend of a share following a declared interim dividend

The worry of inheritance tax has been casting a shadow over the estates of the moderately wealthy

With no apparent likelihood of moving to an exchange-traded system, the main problem with bond fund performance figures is the need to improve disclosures