Six essential investments for 2007
There are six key areas and themes which all investors should have exposure to, according to the Daily Telegraph's Tom Stevenson. Have you got them all covered?
A balanced long-term investment portfolio should include exposure to all of the following areas and themes, argues the Daily Telegraph's Tom Stevenson:
- A global fund to provide breadth, with added performance from a high-yielding portfolio using a formulaic selection method.
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- Invest in the Asian century. Japan looks the current low-risk play, but when there is less "froth" in the market, India looks like being the best 20-year economic growth story.
- Short-term gold as a hedge against depreciation of the dollar, US bonds to benefit from the threat of a recession there this year.
- Commodities for the long term, as "feeding, clothing, heating, housing and transporting an enlarged developed world will put enormous strain on the world's raw materials."
- And climate change "an opportunity as well as a threat the momentum in this area is now unstoppable."
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