Opinion

We are living through a phase when investors say they like Western shares and dislike emerging market shares.

We are only two months into the New Year and many forecasters have torn up their predictions for 2011.

The European Commission may be about to kill two very big birds with one stone. The ‘stone' it is casting from Brussels is the snappily named Regulation on Short Selling and Certain Aspects of Credit Default Swaps.

Anyone who came to the UCIS roadshow I chaired recently around the UK will have heard about the issue of due diligence and the need to do it on an ongoing basis.

The expression ‘conflicts of interest' is very much used in financial services and the discussion about what it actually constitutes is gathering momentum.

NO NEED TO DOWNGRADE UK GDP FORECAST

Fidelity's bond manager Ian Spreadbury is running a chunky underweight to bank debt in the view it is particularly at risk from the threat of a double-dip recession.

MPC SHOULD NOT RAISE RATES

The manager of Henderson's £795m European Growth fund urges investors to stay put in Europe despite Middle East troubles and surging inflation.

This week I am going to say something I did not think I ever would - investing in wealth service advisers might be a good idea.