Hargreaves: My sale of HL shares was purely serendipitous

Timing market "invariably pure luck"

Anna Fedorova
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Hargreaves Lansdown co-founder Peter Hargreaves has said that his recent sale of HL stock was "purely serendipitous" and had nothing to do with concerns over the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on markets.

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