Recession spurs Friends to review with-profits bonuses

Friends Provident cuts with-profits bonus rates

Story by: Dominic Welling, FTAdviser

Friends Provident has reduced its with profits bonus rates due to the "challenging" market conditions.

  • Time published: 10.28
  • Date published: 09.01.2009
  • Published in: Investments

Royal London 360° opens to new business

Royal London has launched its combined international business Royal London 360°, which is made up of two of its existing offshore businesses.

  • Date published: 09.01.2009

Cofunds hires new CEO

Cofunds, a UK investment platform, has appointed Brett Williams as its new chief executive officer (CEO), to succeed Charlie Eppinger, who after four years as CEO of the company, will become a non-executive chairman.

  • Date published: 09.01.2009

iShares ETFs added to Novia platform

iShares, the Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) from Barclays Global Investors (BGI), are now available to investors through the Novia wealth management service.

  • Date published: 08.01.2009

US and Asia to lead recession recovery predicts CII

The current economic slowdown will be longer and more painful than previous downturns with the recovery to be led by the US and Asia, the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) warned.

  • Date published: 08.01.2009

Bramdean writes off Madoff investments

Bramdean Alternative's investment trust has announced it will be writing off the full cost of two investments it had in hedge funds run by Bernard Madoff.

  • Date published: 08.01.2009

Rathbone sees funds under management fall 20 per cent

Rathbone Brothers' total funds under management decreased by 20.3 per cent over the last year, dropping to £10.46bn by the end of 2008.

  • Date published: 08.01.2009

Oil supply is set to fall below demand

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that over $26trn of new energy investment is needed in the oil industry between 2007 and 2030, with over half of that needed just to maintain current supply capacity.

  • Date published: 08.01.2009

Commodity sector could face supply shortages: BlackRock

The commodity sector could face supply shortages when demand picks up again as companies make hard decisions against a backdrop of low demand and falling prices in 2009, according to fund manager Richard Davis.

  • Date published: 08.01.2009

Global equity markets rebound despite volatility

Global equity markets rebounded in December despite the volatility witnessed throughout the rest of the year, according to Standard & Poor’s Index Services.

  • Date published: 08.01.2009

Portavista to feature MetLife retirement option

MetLife's Retirement Portfolio has opened to new business on Bankhall's Portavista platform in a deal that makes it the only unit-linked guarantee product available on the distributor's platform.

  • Date published: 08.01.2009

Feature

A guide to surviving the white-knuckle market ride

Despite 2008's financial shocks, it's worth sticking around and carefully taking advantage of present market conditions

  • Time published: 00.01
  • Date published: 05.01.2009
  • Published in: Investments

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Fresh strategies for a new year

As 2009 dawns, sectors related to dividend income and growth are already starting to dominate stock market forecasts

  • Time published: 00.01
  • Date published: 05.01.2009
  • Published in: Investments

News Analysis

Long-term benefits on the frontier

Though not immune from western turmoil, African markets are now attracting attention

  • Time published: 00.01
  • Date published: 05.01.2009
  • Published in: Investments

Comment

It's time to look beyond the catastrophe

We need to learn to live in a world where Wall Street does not dominate world markets

  • Time published: 00.01
  • Date published: 05.01.2009
  • Published in: Investments

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