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Investing lessons for 2023

The best takeaways are learnt over years and decades, and not from the past 12 months

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    • In 2022, the S&P 500 clocked in with its worst performance since 2008, an abnormality in the context of history.
    • In 2022, the S&P 500 clocked in with its worst performance since 2008, an abnormality in the context of history. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG

    Chin Hui Leong

    Published Tue, Jan 10, 2023 · 06:04 PM

    IT has been either a terrible time or a great time to be owning stocks. A lot depends on when you started investing.

    Last year, the S&P 500 index sank 19.4 per cent, marking its worst performance since 2008. Investors who put in their money at the start of 2022 would be understandably distraught.

    Yet, if you lengthen your time horizon, the returns look vastly different.

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