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Standard Life's head of Global Strategy gives his views on the recession, Government intervention and what the future holds

Investment Week announced the winners of its first Climate Change Investment Awards just before Christmas and over the next four pages some of the successful companies are profiled. While Peter McCready and Cherry Reynard make the case for the sector...

The Pension Protection Fund is designed to step in when schemes default, but do the figures stack up?

A deep-seated enthusiasm for politics and economics along with a generous helping of humility is what drives Paul Lambert. We talk to him about how a constant quest for knowledge led him down an interesting path to become manager of Polar Capital's Discovery...

New opportunities for advisers Ever since Friends Provident launched their Stewardship Fund in 1984...

Will the financial crisis in the US and other Western countries lead Asian central banks to stop buying US Treasuries? Without this support, will exchange rates move from their artificially low position? Investors in Asia need to consider how to handle...

During challenging times within European equity markets, it is easy to take a bearish stance on the year ahead. But despite the headwinds, the foundations upon which these markets are built can offer up some compelling opportunities...

The myth of the Japanese economic super-model has long been dispelled but how can the Japanese dragon be among the first to take flight again after the crisis of 2008?

Structured products add an important dimension in the investment arena, providing wealth managers wi...

Forced selling and market turmoil in 2008 have created opportunities in global bonds for 2009