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Below is the Finweek portfolio where we have gone with a mixture of defensive and growth prospects for the current trading environment.

FCPD	Foord Compass Good old Mr Reliable	R 7.45
SOL	Sasol A global energy play with great growth prospects	R 350
CCO	Satrix Divi Nothing beats a consistent dividend	R 1.60
ANG	AngloGold Ashanti A quality global gold play	R 295
OML	Old Mutual More upside in this turnaround	R 11.50

Marc Ashton

I have an affinity for small and mid-cap businesses and while the Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) provide me with some security I’m looking for the smaller shares to deliver the growth

FCPD	Foord Compass Good old Mr Reliable	R 7.45
ABL	African Bank Investments Limited Prefer it over Capitec	R 35
PPE	Purple Capital A lekker small cap play	R 0.24
BDM	Buildmax Backing it for a turnaround	R 0.12
BEG	Beige Holdings Finally paid a dividend in 2011	R 0.9

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90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
Corporations like Microsoft and Google shell out around 15% of their revenue to internal research and development labs, where Apple spends only 2.2% to creating new and innovative concepts.
Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song ‘Happy Birthday’. They make over $1m in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
Yahoo! was originally called ‘Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web’.
More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.
Walmart has more employees – 2.1m – than seven times the population of Iceland.
If the entire population of earth were reduced to 100 people, 50% of the world’s currency would be held by six people.
The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.
Google receives over 1m resumés annually. Of those they hire 4 000-6 000 per year.
Apple co-founder, Ronald Wayne, sold his 10% stake in the company he co-founded for $1 500. If he sold his 10% stake today he would’ve earned $35b.
The creator of the Nike Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
If you had invested R10 000 in PSG in 1996 it would now be worth R3.6m
The average company saves over $7 000 for each employee suggestion that is enacted.
American Airlines saved $40 000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.

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