Finance & economics

Low returns, happy returns

International investment is in fashion. Should governments limit pension funds' holdings of foreign assets?

The Nomura scandal

Familiar sins

Insurance broking

Risk advoidance

Insurance and the Holocaust

Life insurance was a favourite investment of European Jews before the second world war. Where are those policies now?

Ireland

Gael warning

Can EMU be left to stew?

The costs of qualifying for Europe's single currency are proving to be high. Trouble is, so is the likely cost of postponing the project

Financial technology

Beware the millennium

Italian securities

Mission implausible