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Stock quotation boards in Tokyo last Monday showing prices on the stock exchanges of (from left) Shanghai, Tokyo and New York. The writer cites history to show that the longer you hold your equities portfolio, the higher the probability that it would — Stock quotation boards in Tokyo last Monday showing prices on the stock exchanges of (from left) Shanghai, Tokyo and New York. The writer cites history to show that the longer you hold your equities portfolio, the higher the probability that it would be positive. For example, for all the one-year rolling periods between January 1973 and July 2019, the percentage of positive periods was 59 per cent. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Teh Hooi Ling

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Sep 01, 2019, 05:00 AM

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