Hedge funds collapsing, tsunamis, terrorist attacks, wars, interest rate hikes, oil price shocks – so many events have affected confidence in share markets over time that there are almost too many to list.
In many cases markets have dropped substantially in the wake of a crisis. Yet we’ve also seen markets recovering from these events, often quite swiftly. Of course there are no guarantees that what’s happened in the past will always happen in the future. But we can be sure that more crises will strike, and hope that markets will continue to return to their true value over time.