There is the old saying that it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

And for outsourcing companies, this may well be true as government cutbacks could prove hugely beneficial.

The need to cut the nation's increasing debt burden will lead to a rush in outsourcing of back-office public services and drive excellent growth opportunities for companies in the support services sector.

This is the view of Paul McGinnis, head of research, at The Co-operative Asset Management.

He argues that regardless of which political party wins the forthcoming election, tackling the country's budget deficit will result in the outsourcing of public services on an unprecedented scale – in itself providing a huge opportunity for investors.

Go back 10 years from this very day and the stock market was going into freefall as technology stocks finally came back to earth with a resounding bump.

With the benefit of hindsight it is clear now that some fledgling tech companies were fantastic businesses and have proved this since but back then it was harder to distinguish the wheat from the chaff.

Having looked at the pros and cons of cash ISAs, many investors may well decide to instead opt for the potentially better but riskier rewards on offer from equity ISAs.

Nigel Walker head of research with online broker Torquil Clark provides his top six funds for ISA investors in 2010.

The news just doesn't get much better for RBS does it? The banks has just reported a loss for 2009 and been heavily criticised for paying out bonuses.

It now seems the bank has the largest pension deficit relative to its market value out of U.K. finance firms in the FTSE 350 index.