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Gold Survey presentation:

http://www.gfms.co.uk/Brochures/Gold%20Survey%202007%20Launch%20Presentation.pdf

PIMCO/Ibbotson asset allocation/commodities study:

http://media.pimco-global.com/pdfs/pdf/Ibbotson%20Strategic%20Asset%20Allocation%20and%20Commodities%202006%20Global.pdf

www.shadowstats.com

Articles wriiten by Charles Drace

History of Capitalism

Additional reading:

Devil Take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor ISBN-10: 0452281806

Financial Reckoning Day by Bonner and Wiggin ISBN-10: 0471696587

Empire of Debt by Bonner and Wiggin ISBN-10: 047198048X

Irrational Exuberance by Robert Schiller ISBN-10: 0767923634

At the Crest of the Wave by Robert Prechter ISBN-10: 0471979546

Conquer the Crash by Robert Prechter ISBN-10: 0470849827

The bull Hunter by Dan Denning ISBN-10: 0471787221


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news

 

23rd February 2010

 

January was an interesting month. Turmoil began in the share markets while gold recovered some of it's December losses only to head down again from the middle of the month. Balancing that on the positive side we had some small gains from the weakening NZ dollar. Roughly speaking we lost about 1% in each fund from the market drops and gained about 2% from the currency.

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