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  • A change of stewardship

    Heather Connon

    Heather Connon: Britain's oldest ethical fund, F&C's Stewardship Growth, celebrates its first quarter century

  • Now the small-cap fits ... so wear it

    Forget the FTSE 100 rally: small companies have been the place to be this year, says Heather Connon

  • Weighing up Isa tactics is a taxing task for all

    Heather Connon

    Heather Connon: If you're over 50 there's no need to wait to take advantage of the rise in the Isa allowance

  • Is playing safe fraught with danger?

    Heather Connon: Conventional wisdom advocates drip-feeding money into the stockmarket over a long period

  • Forget the name - these funds are not for the faint hearted

    Heather Connon

    A third of 'cautiuously managed' funds have lost money in the last five years, Heather Connon

  • Equities worth a look as bonds market is shaken, but not stirred

    Heather Connon: this should be a much better time to invest in equities than when everyone was piling into the latest over-hyped technology share

  • Shifting stellar alignments as Henderson takes New Star

    New Star is attempting to attract key fund managers in order to improve performance, writes Heather Connen

  • The limited satisfaction of a guarantee

    A number of stockmarket-linked structured products which claim to offer security and returns are launching, writes Heather Connon

  • Your wallet is going to be busy enough without HSBC

    Heather Connon

    When considering whether to take up a rights issue, ask if you would buy new shares in the company

  • Putting absolute confidence to the test

    Absolute return funds, which make money for investors in rising and falling markets, are enjoying a flurry of activity

  • Problems that go to the very Heart of Africa

    Heather Connon: Yet more disgrace befell New Star, the once stellar fund manager brought down by excessive borrowings, last week

  • For now, all that glisters really is gold

    Increasing numbers of savers are moving into gold as the commodity's price continues to rise

  • Buyer caution takes shine off gifts

    Veteran US investor Jim Rogers warns against buying sterling as critics predict the worst

  • Are Duffield's new stars falling into a black hole?

    Last week New Star's chairman, John Duffield, took radical action to regain his firm's reputation

  • America's not beautiful, but it might look better soon

    A third of US firms are trading on market values below the book value of their assets

  • A with-profits windfall that's still up in the air

    Norwich Union with-profits policyholders who resisted the temptation to cash in have had some bad news

  • Banks are collapsing, but cash is still king

    Your investments: Gold had benefited from the extreme risk aversion. But it carries no income

  • Structured products: an unholy grail?

    Heather Connon cites Lehman Brothers as a reason to be wary of investing in structured products

  • Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Invesco's Mr Woodford

    Heather Connon: It's worth asking again: how much money can Neil Woodford manage?

  • Get used to it - there's simply no such thing as absolute growth

    Heather Connon

    Heather Connon: While Blackrock Absolute Alpha never promised investors it would always be in positive territory, its very name suggests that that is what they should expect

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