Eight days after the presidential election, a nationally known investment expert told a Harrison audience of nearly 200 people  the ongoing war to take money from the pockets of savers and folks facing retirement will escalate in 2013.

Chris Bertelsen, chief investment officer at Aviance Capital Management, LLC, revealed several important messages at Harrison High School Wednesday, Nov. 14, but stressed the “real war” is the battle to ensure income outpaces taxes and inflation, which will take due diligence, buoyed by conservative and diversified global investments, during President Barak Obama’s second term.