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Cash trending towards trash

uring the mid- to late-2000s and then more recently from January 2015 to date, South African investors could invest in the money market and earn an attractive real return with little risk to their capital. The more recent period of positive real money market returns coincided with a period of disappointing returns from growth assets (equities and property), with the result that more and more investors switched their growth asset exposure to

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