American Investment Services, Inc.

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2012

July 2012 – “What’s Your Performance?”

Beginning this month we will present hypothetical performance figures for our recommended portfolios on a “net-of-fee” basis. This change follows an internal review of our own procedures, which have always acknowledged that we published for two audiences, our readers and our advisory clients, who arguably are better served by results presented “gross of fees” and

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June 30, 2012 – Retirement: The Income Conundrum

Retirees are facing perhaps their greatest financial challenge at any time since the Great Depression. Life expectancies are increasing, Social Security income may be curtailed, and traditional pension plans are disappearing. Seniors can no longer rely on positive real returns from traditional cash equivalent assets such as certificates of deposit and Treasury bills. Meanwhile current

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Feb. 2012 – The EPI: A New Tool for Coping with Price Inflation

AIER has developed a new and very useful index that measures price changes among goods and services that most of us purchase regularly. This greatly improves our ability to measure the cost of unanticipated price inflation and the impact it might have on investors’ household budgets. It is clear that the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U)

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