Lucas Financial Consulting Ltd

What the fund managers say.. In this section we look at the House view of one of the leading Fund Managers operating in Ireland and importantly, what’s on the horizon for the following in 2011:- Equity Markets, Economic Growth, Currency Markets, Interest Rates and Bonds, Overall

What is absolute return investing? The concept is actually very simple. An investor with an ʻabsolute returnʼ strategy aims to generate positive returns in any stock market cycle – the fund manager does this by using techniques that enables them to profit from both the ups and downs in markets and stock prices.

The latest development in the world of pensions is self-directed options. While these have been available for some time they have traditionally been aimed at a very small portion of the marketplace. Now providers have opened up these attractive options to a wider market, which means many more people can get in on the act.