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Investment comment

Q3 2008

Economic and Market Background

Bond and equity markets were unsettled during the second quarter of the year as the spectre of rising global inflation (and the prospect that central banks around the world would implement higher interest rates to tackle it) began to weigh heavily on investors already struggling to digest the implications of the continuing crisis in credit markets and a slowing global economy.

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