Lyndon Driver explores why the Chinese banking market is so hard to crack for western banks

Christopher Thompson explains the appeal of exchange-traded funds to retail and institutional investors

Paul Melly on how recent movements in the cocoa market have reignited the debate concerning the influence of speculative trading of commodities on financial exchanges

A special 12-page supplement on Training

What part should the regulator play in setting and policing ethical practice?

Linda Cocksedge FCSI, investment strategist and quilt maker

A look at how more intensive teaching regimes and longer terms could reduce the vast increase in debt that university graduates face

Baroness Hogg, the Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council, speaks to Hugo Cox

Christopher Adams’ first column for the S&IR

Economist Roger Nightingale gives his verdict on whether the economic crisis is over or if it is just the first phase that has ended