Invested:Past tense, future perfect: take steps now to shape your portfolio

Editor’s Note

Memories are powerful things. They can shape our future actions, or be hastily forgotten. Sometimes the bad ones can be hard to escape, though, floating back into view when you’d prefer them to stay buried.

For investors, recent turmoil in the markets has stirred memories of the panic that gripped throughout the financial crisis. A torrid start to the year for global markets has seen parallels drawn with 2008.

Worldwide economic uncertainty, oil-price ...