Second, much as it soothes the ego to think that your portfolio setbacks are because of a conspiracy, where large institutional clients make a killing and the individual investors get the crumbs from the table, it is institutional clients who lose the most in bad deals because they have more to lose.

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Last week investors fast-concluded from the crumbs falling from the table at the central bank that it was more concerned about U.S. and European debt crisis that could yet end in a tailspin than it was about domestic inflation.

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