Green entrepreneurs and asset managers are attracting interest from family offices and wealthy investors keen to explore a different type of engagement with ‘real assets'. Meanwhile, bond issuers are getting behind the market as well

The image of the banking sector may be taking a battering at the moment, but it has not stopped new players entering the market

Election drama and political uncertainty may be exercising the market in the UK, but sharp falls overnight in stock markets round the world were a reaction to a different factor: the surprising complacency demonstrated by the European Central Bank (ECB)...

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As information moves faster, and advisers and product providers identify market trends more quickly, investors have to be quick to catch the nano-second before an exciting opportunity and considered strategy becomes a bubble.

Private equity fund of funds, which delivered stellar returns from 2004 to the end of December 2007, are poised to resume their activity after the sector imploded following the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008.

The Greek budget deficit saga drags on: all the excruciating metaphors now exhausted, there remains just the long grind to a compromised conclusion involving soggy sovereign yields and increasingly disinterested investors.