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How to handle the shock of a market collapse

2020 has been many things, none of them what we expected. I remember hearing about this new coronavirus in mid-January. Early reports were certainly worrisome and I was keeping half an eye on developments in China. Then, in early March, on the day the first case was announced in South Africa, I was in Durban doing a presentation on the possible impact the virus

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