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Counting the ways to beat inflation

Story by: Philip Coggan, Investment Adviser

With inflation becoming an increasing cause for worry, what is good to buy as a hedge?

• Time published: 00:01
• Date published: 09.06.2008
• Published in: Investments

Multi-managers are coming of age

The market is now more sophisticated and offers advisers excellent solutions

• Date published: 09.06.2008

A bubble waiting to burst

Governments around the globe are learning to their cost the political knock-on effects of rising oil prices - recently more than $130 per barrel. When it comes to filling the petrol tank – an oil shock in itself, voters are disinclined to give a sympathetic hearing to government assertions that this is a global problem.

• Date published: 09.06.2008

A shedload of returns to be had

• Date published: 09.06.2008

All aboard for Boris's ban

Boris Johnson may have overlooked the short-term concerns of infrastructure investors, as the advent of his Underground drinking ban produced some ugly scenes last weekend.

• Date published: 09.06.2008

Where Germans go to avoid the Britpack

Last week, a British man was awarded £750 after suing his travel company for sending him to a holiday resort filled with Germans.

• Date published: 09.06.2008

Plane crazy way to ensure coverage

If companies distributed their dividends by throwing them from an aircraft, investors would probably run straight to the FSA.

• Date published: 09.06.2008

Test drive a..Lotus Europa S

With a body weight of only 995 kg – less than some adult pigs – and a 2-litre turbo-charged engine, putting your foot down in the Lotus Europa S is like dropping a paper aeroplane in front of an electric fan: whoosh.

• Date published: 09.06.2008

Oranges are not the only fruit

Investors looking to play the soft-commodity boom may want to think again, particularly when it comes to high-maintenance citrus fruits.

• Date published: 09.06.2008

An asset class that does well in bad times

In spite of some favourable characteristics inflation-linked bonds have been neglected by investors

• Date published: 09.06.2008

Time for a cure

Are we out of the economic woods yet? Or are there further dark clouds on the horizon? At the risk of adding yet more clichés to what has already been a rollercoaster of financial emotions, the ides of June bear ill witness for prime minister Gordon Brown.

• Date published: 09.06.2008

Correction

In the 26 May issue of Investment Adviser we published a story in the Diary section, wrongly stating that Cru Investment Management has a direct stake in a lingerie company and a core belief that sex sells. We apologise for these errors and for any offence caused.

• Date published: 09.06.2008

Reading about... In Spite of the Gods

When Edward Luce headed the FT’s South Asia news bureau, he once bought a 5000 rupee (£65) ticket for a cricket match between India and England.

• Date published: 09.06.2008