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Ken Rayner, investment director at Rayner Spencer Mills, looks at whether corporate bond funds should feature in your fund mix.

Richard Dunbar, investment director at SWIP, on why strong GDP growth does not necessarily translate into healthy investment returns.

NINE WORST ASSET BUBBLES

First State's Martin Lau has beaten stars including Invesco Perpetual's Neil Woodford and Neptune's Robin Geffen to see his Greater China Growth fund ranked the most consistent performer over the three years to the end of 2011.

AXA Investment Managers' Richard Marwood says understanding how asset classes react differently to various market conditions is the key to real portfolio diversification.

Cazenove Capital Management has made unbundled share classes available to intermediaries across its equity and multi-manager fund ranges ahead of the RDR deadline at the end of the year.

Strategic bond sales soared in December as equity funds suffered a poor end to the year, according to the latest figures from platform Cofunds.

PSigma Investment Management is relaunching its discretionary management service as the firm looks to capitalise on the adviser community's preference for outsourcing solutions ahead of the retail distribution review (RDR).

Equity funds experienced their highest ever outflows of retail money in November as investors pulled out their cash in droves amid the ongoing eurozone crisis.

Fund launches reached a decade low last year as groups held back new products in the face of market volatility.