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MoneyManagement ISSUE 01 October 2008 >> Features
Leading Story
ETFs - A unique investment cocktail
Story by: Joe McGrath, Money Management
Against the backdrop of the global economic chill, investors are increasingly looking further than conventional funds for enhanced returns, as Joe McGrath discovers
- Time published: 00:01
- Date published: 01.10.2008
- Published in: Investments
Features
Tax spotlight - Bypassing your spouse (or other beneficiary)
Marcia Banner of Clerical Medical explores the use of the 'bypass trust' as a home for death benefits payable from personal or occupational pension schemes
- Date published: 01.10.2008
Standard & Poor's top 15 UK life insurers
Positive news is hard to find for the UK life industry after a challenging year for the sector, says Mark Button of Standard & Poor's
- Date published: 01.10.2008
Pensions spotlight - Imagination for money purchase pensions
Increasing reliance on money purchase pensions is bringing out their shortcomings, suggests John Chapman
- Date published: 01.10.2008
Advertising
Bear necessities?
With world stock markets in turmoil, investors are seeking security. Geordie Clarke looks at which structured product can meet the demand for equity exposure with a safety net
- Date published: 01.10.2008
Mortgage spotlight - Tools of value in a moving market
AVMs have become a fixture of the mortgage market during the housing boom. How will they fare now that the market is falling, asks Laverne Hadaway?
- Date published: 01.10.2008
Offshore Optimism
- Date published: 01.10.2008
Protection spotlight - Keep on running - the value of business protection
The business protection market is still in its infancy but insurers believe it's time for it to come of age and are keen to promote it. Helen Pridham looks at the opportunities for advisers
- Date published: 01.10.2008
Stay or go?
With bonus rates continuing to plummet, should with profits policyholders continue with their policies? Vince Smith-Hughes, national pensions manager at AIG Life Wealth Management, looks at the practicalities
- Date published: 01.10.2008
Multi-manager spotlight - Advisers kept in line
In 2007, the success of multi-manager prompted the FSA to see at how small firms were dealing with the funds. With a TCF deadline and the RDR outcome imminent, Gareth Shaw assesses its impact one year on
- Date published: 01.10.2008
Statistics - October 2008
Click on any of the links below to view this month's statistics in a PDF file
- Date published: 01.10.2008
Taking stock - Navigating dangerous waters
As the financial outlook darkens, former investment banker Russell Taylor looks at the four demons that frustrate good investment intentions
- Date published: 01.10.2008
Double dipping
Funds of funds are growing in popularity but critics still complain about double charging and question performance. Elliot Farley, senior investment analyst at T Bailey, is keen to explode the myths of multi-managers
- Date published: 01.08.2008
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Absolute promises
The prospect of earning cash plus returns in falling markets is attractive. Absolute return funds claim to do this, but is it always possible, asks Geordie Clarke?
- Date published: 01.12.2008
At Retirement SIPPs Personal Pensions And Tax Planning (View Issue)
Pensioners must go to market
- Date published: 01.06.2008
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