Rupert Hengster, CEO of Oppenheim Asset Management, talks to Yuri Bender about how a privately-owned bank can take on German giants

The structured products industry responds to pressure to create new, performance based solutions

Liability matching strategies, once the preserve of pension schemes, are increasingly being employed by life insurance companies and other distributors

The industry has some work to do to clear up any confusion about how structured products operate, so leading to greater customer acceptance

Manufacturers, distributors, managers – how are their relationships changing with one another, and who will gain the ultimate prize of interacting directly with the final client? With these issues set to be thrashed out at Fund Forum 2005, Roxane McMeeken examines the likelihood of mergers and more outsourcing.

Simon Hildrey reviews the recent performance of US stocks and discovers that fund managers are polarised about what will happen next

Despite the real estate market glut in Germany, a handful of innovative managers are starting to buy up assets, writes Roxane McMeeken