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Dear Readers
Welcome to the first edition of MarketViews for 2012!
AJ Cilliers wrestles with the idea that most of us don’t plan our investing because it seems too complicated, and because we believe that fund managers will naturally be more successful than we will. Debunking these beliefs, Cilliers offers a KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid!) plan to invest using tracker funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) as one of his suggestions.
In this issue, Nicholas van der Meer questions whether the apparent recovery from the 2008 recession won’t be followed by a dip as severe as the Great Depression of 1929 to 1932. But the real concern, he says, is not if and when it will come, but how to be prepared as an investor. Gleaning insight from the Great Depression, his article provides five tips to help put you in the best position to survive such a storm.
Dwaine van Vuuren of Powerstocks gives us the low-down on the revision of the new Conference Board LEI. He puts the new LEI to the test to judge its suitability for recession dating, and discovers that the old LEI was more optimistic than the newer one...
Wishing you a successful month’s investing,
Natalie Wassung
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 | I am beginning to suspect that the reason why so many of us fail to invest on a regular basis is because it seems so complicated. |
 | Do we assume that we've been saved from another Depression and it's back to business as usual? Or should we be sceptical about the 'recovery' and expect a depression to hit us any day now? |
 | The much anticipated Conference Board LEI revision is out. Many people feared that the removal of M2 from the composite would plunge it into recession territory, but that is not the case. |
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