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Editorial |
Credit crunch and trustee investment

*Tony Molloy QC, Barrister, Shortland Chambers, 13/70 Shortland Street, PO Box 4338, Auckland, New Zealand. Email: apmolloyqc@shortlandchambers.co.nz
Toby Graham, Partner and Head of Contentious Trusts and Estates, Farrer & Co, 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, UK WC2A 3LH. Email: tbg@farrer.co.uk
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The suddenness, and severity, of the current financial malaise has left many asking what has happened, and why nobody saw it coming. Some of those nursing investment losses might be looking for someone to blame. This issue of Trusts & Trustees seeks to address these questions, with assistance from some of the leading lights in the investment world.
Benjamin Graham, a celebrated 20th century stock-market investor and economist and influence on Warren Buffett, famously said
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