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Today's smaller investors demand the same treatment offered to the market's big players

Double or quits? Big excitement as year-end inflows into Isas doubled but disappointment on the realisation the total is half what it was last year. One week the stock market shoots up and the next it plummets. According to the sages who have survived the past 20 years in Japan, this is what the beginning of a long running bear market looks like. In that period, there have been no less than five rallies of more than 25% of the key index and as many drops of similar proportion. How do you know when to buy shares or funds? Chartists are on tenterhooks for the FTSE to break through its 200...

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