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Absolute Return

Eurozone still in a fix?

Bob Jolly explains why eurozone risks still remain for fixed income investors.

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Active versus passive

It can pay to be passive…

Sean Gardner looks at the various ways you can use passive investments in the current challenging environment.

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Blog

Our Mann on...winning

Skandia UK Chief Executive Peter Mann provides his thoughts on what it takes to be a winner and how he intends to keep Skandia at the top of the platform league.

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Cash/Money market

Opportunities in bank capital

Paul Causer opens the lid on the new world of bank capital post Basel III

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Charges

Paying the price for performance

Graham Bentley opens our eyes to the potential future issues for investors in a period of low growth.

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Emerging markets

Accessing the Indian growth story

Avinash Vazirani discusses the prospects for growth in Indian equities during 2012 and how he is positioned to benefit.

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European equity

Getting the most out of the market

Nicholas Dowell explains how the HSBC European Growth team extract value from equities.

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Financial advice

Bedding down for tax-year end

Charlie Mills highlights some of the planning opportunities to utilise in the lead up to tax-year end

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Fixed interest

Linkers. Expensive? ...Get real!

Stephen Jones takes a look at what negative real yields in the index-linked gilt market really mean.

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Global funds

Going global pays dividends

Daniel Roberts explains why equity income investors should be looking beyond just the UK.

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Informer TV

Head to Head – Quantitative and Qualitative

When researching funds for your client’s portfolio’s how in depth do you go? An understanding of a manager’s investment style can have real benefits if you are running an investment committee to oversee your portfolios.

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Investment process

Appetite for Risk

Jeremy Mugridge continues his look into the digital world with mobile apps and updates us on the launch of Skandia UK’s first app.

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Japanese equity

Japan - 4 months after the earthquake

Andrew Rose takes a look at the prospects for the Japanese economy in the aftermath of March’s natural disaster.

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Managed funds

Hitting missing targets

Mat Wood highlights why you need to ensure your client’s insured managed funds are truly matched to their attitude to risk.

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Market outlooks

Good year, bad year - you decide

Lyndon Gill takes a retrospective look at 2011 and then provides his thoughts for 2012.

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Miscellaneous

Twitter – learning the lingo

Jeremy Mugridge gives us a crash course in Twitter terminology.

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Multi-asset

Multi-managing inflation issues

Ryan Hughes highlights some inflation beating multi-manager options for your clients’ ISAs this tax year.

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Platforms

Out with the old...

Graham Bentley takes a further dive into the investment value chain and looks at the effects of the RDR on platform propositions.

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Protected investments

Plan for the worst, but position yourself for the best

Dean Bowden looks at how the Skandia Shield Fund can help clients through the current turbulent and potentially confusing market.

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Property

Commercial property - A safe haven in the gathering storm?

George Shaw looks at why property offers value in this relatively turbulent period in the wider market.

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Regulation

The Long and Winding Road

Graham Bentley takes a look at the possible outcomes from the latest regulatory offerings from Brussels and Canary Wharf.

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Retirement

Climbing the retirement mountain

Charlie Mills continues to look at the complications of managing clients’ multiple pension pots and what that means when trying to build a decent retirement income.

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Risk-rated funds

Built for the job or adapted to the job?

Ryan Hughes discusses why advisers should tread carefully when looking at risk-rated solutions.

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Specialist

Make more from less

David Stevenson looks at the increase in investment opportunities as we transition to a low-carbon world.

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UK equity

Going long (term)

Anthony Cross runs through his long term investment approach to UK equities.

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With-profits

Those with-profits bonds – are they high flyers or turkeys?

Feedback to our recent questionnaire about with-profits bonds suggests that many advisers still find them complex and difficult to assess. This could mean that thousands of investors are stuck in ‘with-profits’ whether they are suitable or not. Help is at

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