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        City Girl: Looking abroad

        We have been exploring different avenues of how to grow your money and most of these have been based in our own back yard, with the exception of keeping our wine investments overseas of course. As I prepare to head for foreign shores though, my mind has done its usual finance nerd thing and looked at the opportunity in terms of investing.

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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.

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