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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

It is working and the MPC should go further if necessary

As the trend towards multi-manager/fund has gathered pace, there has been a premium on experienced teams with the ‘skills' to run these types of mandates. Perhaps the answer is a multi-multi/manager of manager of manager facility?

Corporate bonds are far more complex than most investors realise and in order to choose the best one, both the type of bond and how you access the asset class need to be taken into account

With the Keydata debacle, have investors' concerns switched from counterparty to provider risk?