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Connoisseur

Playing a dangerous game?

Following recent stratospheric prices for works by fashionable artists, Joanna Pitman asks what represents good value and looks at a new breed of buyer in the contemporary art market

Features

The drug formula that didn’t work

Matthew Lynn says the mega-mergers that reshaped the global pharmaceutical industry over the past decade have delivered little of what they promised

Curing the world’s ills

Edie Lush says UK biotech and medical research is world-class, but that start-ups face a challenge to raise capital and must think global from the start

Investor

Gilt-edged returns for troubled times

Traditionalists choose gold, National Savings and gilts. But the best time to buy shares is often when other people are fleeing into cash, argues Alex Brummer

Why can’t a man be more like a woman?

As world markets plummet, studies show that women make better investors. Testosterone trading is so last season, says Janice Warman

‘These clouds will have a silver lining’

Judi Bevan meets Sir John Parker, who chairs National Grid and the Court of the Bank of England — and takes an optimistic view of the deepening recession

Judi Bevan