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The choices in dealing with market volatility depend on your circumstances
The choices in dealing with market volatility depend on your circumstances

But it relies on a host of rosy assumptions going in investors’ favour

While markets were buoyant this year, volatility is never far away

Neither extreme optimism nor extreme pessimism makes much sense, and neither is easy nor safe to express

Markets have shrugged off everything from geopolitics to financial crises

Investors risk being too complacent about war in the Middle East

Political pressure in response to public anxiety will demand policy responses