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Investors' Alphabet: L is for Lifestyle funds

Story by: James Kenny , Investment Adviser

Lifestyle funds are easily one of the most personal investments around.

• Time published: 12:19
• Date published: 14.07.2008
• Published in: Investments

Avoiding the dark clouds forming

Where best to invest as falling growth and rising inflation become more pronounced

• Date published: 14.07.2008

Time to think again about balanced funds

Tough times mean a return to funds that cope with bear markets

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Route into long-term returns with low risk

Volatile markets mean it is important to identify those who can deliver consistent returns rather than stellar performance

• Date published: 14.07.2008

Some pasta, some wine and a banned fag

Who knew Mayfair’s Luciano’s was the hot spot for fund management lunching?

• Date published: 14.07.2008

Match made in heaven

Sir John Templeton has died at the age of 95. And with him ends an era.

• Date published: 14.07.2008

Corking Champagne

As someone whose tooth enamel is already in a parlous state, I’ve never quite understood the wild prestige enjoyed by that lively but corrosively acid wine Champagne.

• Date published: 14.07.2008

Schoolboy beats stock market odds

Fund managers take note. A 13-year-old schoolboy has made a 5 per cent stock market return in less than three weeks despite the FTSE plummeting.

• Date published: 14.07.2008

Taking work experience to a whole new level

Most work experience people content themselves with making tea, answering phones and maybe doing the odd bit of photocopying.

• Date published: 14.07.2008

Mother puts fraudster on the straight and narrow

In a tale of riches to rags, the world’s biggest hedge fund fraudster Samuel Israel went from having an embezzled $450m (£227.6m) fortune to hiding out in a caravan park after faking his own suicide.

• Date published: 14.07.2008

Vatican succumbs to market woes

It seems that even the power of the almighty is no protection from the impending global economic downturn.

• Date published: 14.07.2008