Opinion

The fund manager Crispin Odey describes fund management as a ‘social service'. Or more accurately, he believes wealth preservation for clients is a ‘social service'.

Mark Holman believes mortgage-backed securities still provide opportunities to pick up good income yields

I had to smile. Just as I was sitting down to write this, the FSA announced it was going to clamp down on irresponsible mortgage and loan lending by the banks.

Financial commentators tend to default to a world view determined by the thoughts of Ayn Rand and her enormously influential philosophy called objectivism.

Toni is a young woman the vast majority of readers of Investment Week are unlikely to ever come across in their lives.

Our Senate events offer unparalleled opportunities to explore the latest market trends and developments in surroundings suited to the calibre of delegates they attract.

A leading multi manager said to me the other week that it was "a strange recession" we are living in, as he related how a relative of his who ran a small boutique (as in clothes shop, not asset manager) had hardly noticed a slowdown in trade.

Ethical investors of the World unite! You have nothing to lose but the shackles of your guilty consciences.....

Investment Week Conjecture

HSBC's group chief executive Mike Geoghegan's interview with the FT last week was the icing on the cake for me. He predicted another downturn at some point in the next 18 months - confirming the fears of all those who, like me, reckon we are midway through...