Investment Summit will be held on 6th February 2013 at the The Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh.

In this comprehensive guide Threadneedle look at how portfolios can incorporate a wide range of different assets, all of which have their own characteristics. Understanding these characteristics, and their implications on how a portfolio will perform in different conditions, is a key step in the

In this paper, Schroders’ Multi-Asset Investments and Global Strategic Solutions teams look at how investors can obtain sustainable income in the low economic growth, low interest rate environment that is expected to persist for years to come.

In the current environment it is difficult for investors to secure a reasonable income from their savings, given that interest rates remain at extremely low levels. And in these unpredictable times, choosing which investment assets to hold to secure a reasonable income is probably the most important

What matter's more - the right market, or the right fund manager?

Meaningful macroeconomic risks in both the developed and emerging worlds are likely to lead to a period of low, but not collapsing, growth. In this new low-growth environment, investors will be required to search deeper and broader for opportunities With differing prospects for each country and

The last few years have seen a seismic shift in perception towards the funds of hedge funds industry, from the darlings of the investment world to the black sheep of the family. Of course, there was some gross negligence and wholly inappropriate management, but this was not specific to funds of

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the benefits that an active and diversified currency strategy can bring when added to a multi-asset-class portfolio. The advantages that a diversified approach can offer compared with that of the most widely used currency investment strategies will also be

Japan is cheap and at the same time a value-trap. The paradigm for most investors is to assume a free market and that share prices will gravitate towards fair value. But Japan is different. Does Graham-Dodd and the typical value investing work here?

Merger arbitrage is an investment strategy that often lurks in the shadows of the equity world, out of sight of many investors due to its arcane nature, peculiar details and sometimes pedestrian returns. Largely the domain of hedge funds and other alternative asset managers, merger arbitrage is a