How to beat the crisis

Newspaper headlines may scream about dramatic market falls and rocketing gold and oil prices. But more important for you as an investor is what exactly is causing the current turmoil - and how to position your portfolio accordingly.

At the spring equinox the financial markets are grappling with the twin, yet opposing, forces of inflation and deflation. One of these forces will wax, the other will wane.

The job of the investment strategist, like a nineteenth century detective writer (and a jolly good one at that), is to discover "who done it?" and why?

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