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Portfolios exist to help people spread their risks. The trouble is, many portfolios are a mish mash of assets that people have accumulated without putting much thought into risk, returns, weightings and objectives.

One of the hardest things about being an investor in the past 18 months was watching the failure of almost all the experts' most cherished concepts.

There has been a hullabaloo in the media recently about price falls.

The easiest way to build wealth is to put aside part of your earnings for investment and do it for as long as possible. As US investment advisor John Hussman puts it, a strong proponent of the theory that wealth is not acquired through addition but through multiplication.