Happy New Year! Welcome to 2012. It's that time of year when many of us say "out with the old and in with the new". But is it really that practical or even possible to achieve this with regard to financial matters?
The European debt did not vanish overnight because we turned into a new year; markets did not rebound to their earlier highs; global currencies did not return to desired levels; commodities did not bounce back to their previous records.
Regardless, most of us will try to take stock of what happened in 2011 and try to see where we can gain an advantage by steering in a different direction this year.
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- Writer: Andrew Wood
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