Opinion

Polar Capital Absolute Retun Fund

"I give this portion of my estate as a thank-offering in the firm conviction that never again shall we have a chance of giving our country that form of help which is so vital at the present time" - Stanley Baldwin, first secretary to the Treasury, 1923....

Since when has hyperbole become a staple of investment analysis?

$123trn is a lot of money - it could almost repay most of the UK government's UK debt and my credit card bill combined.

The devil is always in the detail.

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Philip Gibbs, manager of Jupiter's Absolute Return, Financial Opportunities and Global Financials funds, comments on Obama's proposals for banking reform.

For anyone involved in the manufacture, distribution and advice of investment funds, the latest set of statistics from the IMA make very welcome reading a month into the new decade and potentially point to a new era for the industry.

The marketing fraternity would have us believe senior citizens enjoy a Golden Age.

I have just come back from the US having visited Vanguard fund management's campus outside Philadelphia.