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With the Pension Protection Fund currently recording major deficits and companies looking to their pension schemes as a way to cut costs, the horizon for defined benefit schemes looks bleak indeed. What is the best course of action for for navigating...

High-yield bonds have fallen dramatically since the start of the credit crunch but have they reached the bottom of the cycle?

Against the backdrop of the credit crunch, absolute return funds have come the fore, but the investment strategies used are not a new phenomenon and have been around for six decades

Protecting the environment has become a top priority, so what are the opportunities available to investors to get their money working for them and the planet?

As investors are faced with the twin spectres of short-term deflation and long-term inflation, long-only fixed-income managers face a difficult environment. In such a situation, an absolute return approach to fixed-income investing could be worth considering...

In a world in where new financial products come and go at the blink of an eye, exchange traded funds...

As lessons from the credit crunch are learned, investors are assessing all risks, guarantees and government protection

Since the beginning of the credit crunch, credit spreads have expanded considerably, prompting many analysts to extol the virtues of bond investing. However, in such tumultuous times, corporate bonds bring exposure to certain risks. What are they?

The world looks a different place to the one it did just six months ago. Then, as the world contempl...

In testing times, employee apathy is rife, making it essential for employers and their advisers to communicate the importance of maintain focus on retirement planning