Where to invest in 2008

We asked seven investment experts to make their predictions for the year ahead and share their best buys, from African property to hedge funds. Unsurprisingly, their main focus was on how to avoid losing money.

Let's be honest: predictions are a mug's game. At the end of last year no one anticipated the run on Northern Rock.

Still, MoneyWeek's experts did see trouble ahead for markets and offered some decent tips with that in mind. They told us to buy into the Russian consumer, blue-chip stocks, gold and oil service firms.

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