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Convertibles looking good in the drive for returns

Story by: Saji Bac-Mitra, Investment Adviser

Convertible bonds could prove to be an attractive alternative for investors

• Time published: 00:01
• Date published: 11.08.2008
• Published in: Investments

One year on, we are wiser but poorer

There are major lessons to be learned twelve months on from the start of the credit crunch

• Date published: 11.08.2008

Prudence dictates a search for inflation protection

We are in a bear market in equities. The FTSE100 index has fallen by around 20 per cent from its peak and some sectors in the market have fallen even more (banks down approximately 40 per cent).

• Date published: 11.08.2008

Forget over-egged verbosity - the basics of wine flavours

“It’s a foxy little minx of a wine, with a bouquet that recalls moist Madeira cake squeezed into the nozzle of a 1950s Bakelite bicycle pump, and a heady flavour not unlike wilted fuchsia petals tossed with bletted medlars and the smell of disappointment”.

• Date published: 11.08.2008

Constructive way of saving fuel

Americans, ever the resourceful ones, have come up with yet another clever way to beat high petrol prices.

• Date published: 11.08.2008

Greed is good

Why isn’t greed good any more? This wasn’t quite the question posed by Mervyn Davies, chairman of Standard Chartered, but it might as well have been. His point was that perhaps certain City figures are simply paid too much given the current economic climate. Yet isn’t this the wrong way round? No one is suggesting that greed is indeed good – well, not until the punchline anyway – but surely great success deserves great wealth?

• Date published: 11.08.2008

Fund industry's Posh and Becks bear up well in hard times

Dubbed the Posh and Becks of the fund management industry, it now seems as if Nichola Pease, chief executive of JO Hambro, and husband Crispin Odey of fund manager Odey Asset Management, are almost matching the UK’s premier pair in earning power.

• Date published: 11.08.2008

Glitz and glam week

It may only be Wednesday morning at Diary Towers, but as we survey our computer screens with bleary eyes we can only marvel at the wonder that is Ian Chimes.

• Date published: 11.08.2008

The Lord works in mysterious ways

Anyone who never fell asleep in a school history class will know Thomas à Becket was a medieval priest.

• Date published: 11.08.2008

Spiderwoman, Spiderwoman, does what a drunk girl shouldn't

Diary has heard wicked whispers of someone in the industry getting a little too sozzled at a lunch at Coq d'Argent, a terrace restaurant with views over the City.

• Date published: 11.08.2008