The lesson we can learn from past market corrections

Calm heads and hope needed to weather storms

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I have been working in financial markets for 25 years now and within that time I have focussed on the most volatile of all markets – the emerging ones.

Every few years there is a stockmarket crisis of some sort, all of which feel terminal at the time, all of which provide valuable investment lessons not-learnt, and all of which end up in hindsight a blip in the long-term returns chart for a good-quality compounding stock - or, for that matter, real estate or private company.  Market Movers Blog: Italy's service sector contracts at record rate; Irish unemployment predicted to reach 25% My first stockmarket crash was in 1997 in Asia. I was working for the respected house of Robert Fleming, who offered me the opportunity to go out to Ho...

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