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FEATURE: All sorts of factors influence investor behaviour - including times of the year and even days of the week. Some trends are remarkably consistent - so you can predict and profit from them

INVESTMENT THEMES: The constant pressure to find more oil and gas, more iron ore and harvest more wheat, corn and maize is creating big opportunities for specialist engineering groups

FEATURE: Pairs trading is a tactic whose time has come, as Daniel O'Sullivan explains using commodities as an example

FEATURE: While equity dividends are at risk because of falling profits, guaranteed income bonds and preference shares offer a much safer source of income

Resources stocks have provided a welcome sliver of blue sky in the grey gloom of the stock market in recent months. But now respected income fund manager Bill Mott warns that investors holding commodities and natural resources could be in for a hiding.

If listed equity has let you down, and managed funds simply aren't exciting enough, then private equity - the realm of the market where shares are not listed on public stock markets but are held privately - might be worth considering.

INVESTMENT GUIDE: Paying for long-term care is an issue we all have to deal with eventually.

FEATURE: Investment legend Jim Slater explains how investors should position their portfolio so that the resource force is with them, rather than against them, and identifies the shares to buy

FEATURE: Structured products offer better upside than cash, and protection against further downside. But can you really have your cake and eat it? Rosie Carr investigates

Hiding behind safe investments is the wrong thing to do when inflation is becoming a problem