The destruction of value on global stock markets in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic underlines the obvious - investors shouldn't place all their eggs in one basket.
While it is uncertain what the world will look like in the coming months as countries shut down to curb the infection rate of Covid-19, stock markets have crashed before and recovered and it is likely this will happen again...
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