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The Value Perspective: This year, forget forecasts

An 'anti-forecast' for 2018

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"January traditionally sees many investors trying to fill the blank slate the new year represents with forecasts of what the coming months will bring" - Andrew Williams
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It is a continuing curiosity of investing, writes Andrew Williams, that people can be so obsessed about trying to predict the future yet at the same time find it so difficult to think beyond the present

January traditionally sees many investors trying to fill the blank slate the new year represents with forecasts of what the coming months will bring. Ever the contrarians, a more recent tradition has seen...

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