Why 2022 will go down in history, and how to survive 2023
Angelo Ciavarella, Senior Lecturer in Trading in Financial Markets at the University of Greenwich, on the shocks of the past year and survival tips for 2023. The past year will surely go down in history as one of the worst ever for the investment world. Conventional wisdom has always led us to believe that a significant decline in equity markets is usually offset by a gain in bonds, at least based on what happened in the past, particularly in 2008. Instead, in 2022 bonds crashed as well as stocks and lost their defensive function.