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28 April 2017

When travelling with time to relax over the leading international newspapers, it's even more apparent that most commentary is suited to short-term trading rather than long-term investing. Today's headline is tomorrow's letter to the editor and not much more. It matters little what the market did yesterday or some expert's opinion on the next day. As Warren Buffett said in 2016 after a bout of market volatility, "Don't watch the market closely. The money is made in investments by investing, and by holding good companies over long periods of time."

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The reality of investing in a bond is that regardless of whether we have experienced a massive bull market, the most a bond is worth at maturity is the face value.

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