Are UK investors worrying about the wrong crisis?

Echoes of the dotcom bubble ring true

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UK investors have returned from their summer breaks to be faced with a stream of headlines regarding an "emerging markets meltdown" and what the financial service industry has learned (or not) ten years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

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