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Charlotte Moore looks at the state of the commercial property market and finds that bold and resourceful funds with a long-term view can find opportunities if they get the fundamentals right

Inefficiencies within the field of pensions technology have prompted a seldom-seen cooperation forming in the financial services. Gill Wadsworth looks at how the shared goal of achieving standardisation has become the driving force in testing times

Sebastian Cheek investigates the routes that investors are taking as they search for new ways to reduce liabilities in a volatile market

Giovanni Legorano looks at how investors are retooling their core-satellite approach in the wake of financial meltdown

Following the volatility in currency markets, investors have returned to hedging and are looking at ways of reducing risk, as Raquel Pichardo-Allison reports

Westpac Banking Corporation CEO, Gail Kelly opened the morning with some hard truths about the year ahead, noting that in this time, the financial services industry needs to focus on "back to basics," and keep their clients' needs firmly in mind.

Christine Senior examines the current prospects for sustainable investment

As investors have had to rethink their approach to securities lending in the wake of the last 12 months of turmoill Rachel Alembakis looks how the industry is reducing risk

As pension funds around the world to take investment decisions, amid levels of unprecedented uncertainty, the advice of investment consultants becomes more important than ever.

Agriculture had a difficult 2008, but as the World population is estimated to increase by almost 40% by 2050, agricultural investment is set to grow, as Sebastian Cheek reports