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  • Crowds line the pavement in Oxford Street, in London, on September 28, 2010

    Saving for economic storms ahead makes perfect sense

    With a £379bn pensions gap, the exhortation to save less is hard to understand – Britons would do better to cut debt than go on a spree

  • M&G’s bond fund enters an inflated market

    M&G's bond fund enters an inflated market

    The corporate bond fund from M&G launches as one fund manager claims the market is as overblown as technology shares in 2000
  • Investments: Meteor’s 19% return shoots for the stars

    Investments: Meteor's 19% return shoots for the stars

    Meteor Asset Management has launched a new structured product. But are the risks worth the potential rewards in this unstable climate, asks Heather Connon
  • Neil Woodford

    Invesco's interest in Zimbabwe investment raises concerns

    Invesco's investment in Zimbabwe-related funds highlights fact investors have no control over where managers put their money

  • Investing: Healthy profits, such as Rio Tinto's 125% rise, highlight depth of last year’s turmoil

    Investing: Healthy profits highlight depth of last year's turmoil

    Recent half-year profit announcements say more about the state of the economy 12 months ago than about any hope for the future, says Heather Connon
  • Stock market offers opportunities to negate inflation

    Stock market offers opportunities to negate inflation

    As NS&I pulls its index-linked certificates investors must look beyond cash investments to combat the effects of inflation

  • water hosepipe

    Water: an investment to tap in to

    Heather Connon

    While you can't invest directly in water – yet – you can dip into the market through specialist funds and companies supplying water technologies

  • With-profits policyholders facing unacceptable risks: FSA

  • Takeover by Resolution Life of French insurer Axa

    Axa takeover: policyholders should reassess their investments

  • Ocado and Jupiter are floating on the stock market, but investors should be wary

    Ocado and Jupiter flotations offer investors reasons to be careful

    Investors are being offered the unusual opportunity to buy into two big-name businesses. But should they be tempted?

  • where look for income

    Where should you look for income?

    Equity investors should look for income anywhere but in the UK with its sluggish economic growth. By contrast, most Asian economies – and even the US and Europe – are on the up

  • A sign at a BP petrol station is reflected in raindrops in London

    BP offers slick investment opportunity for long-term growth

    In the first of a new fortnightly investment column, Heather Connon looks at the high dividends offered by 'mega cap' companies – safe havens in times of economic uncertainty
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