Less than a month after Robert Maxwell's death, the Serious Fraud Office began investigating the management of the Mirror Group pension fund, and the company's finances.

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For example, say John has a choice of putting money in a domestic hedge fund or an offshore mirror version.

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The fund is designed to mirror the performance of silver prices.

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The fund, which seeks to mirror the Solactive China Consumer Index, has underperformed as of late, losing 4.6% since the beginning of the year.

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One more demonstration of how fund customers, investing with a rear- view mirror, buy high and sell low.

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The recent underperformance of gold has also been exaggerated by a drop in the price of GLD, the popular exchange traded fund (ETF) originally created by Wall Street to mirror the price of gold.

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