alternative investments

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to review its restrictions on the marketing of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) to retail investors as a result of proposed European rules.

Fiona Murphy asks SIPP providers how the industry can restore adviser confidence in esoteric investments.

IFAonline gives its breakdown of five things your clients may have read in the nationals. This week: Absolute return funds come under the microscope, there's mixed news on the High Street, and one paper tips wine as a possible money-spinner for consumers...

A tree-mendous way to prepare for retirement is to focus on alternative investments such as forestry, as Edward Daniels explains

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and ex-England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson have shared part of a £68,000 dividend in a film investment, but must wait to see whether it will yield £117m in promised tax benefits.

The Investment Management Association (IMA)'s head of tax Stephen Lynam is retiring after more than 30 years in the industry.

Figures for Dublin's Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD) ready Qualifying Investor Fund (QIF) are soaring, according to the Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA).

SIPP provider Curtis Banks has published a list of the investments it is least likely to accept into its pensions.

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Seven men are facing jail after being convicted for their roles in an £8m boiler-room fraud pushing a bio-diesel investment.