Far reaching effects

Trying to see the proverbial 'wood for the trees' in the middle of a crisis is always difficult. The most recent stock market falls have had a far reaching effect on investments generally and they have decimated even the best of performance assumptions. It is easy to think that the markets will recover, as they always have done, and that this is just another 'crash' similar to all those that have gone before. But it isn't, this time it is different, and the main difference with this particular economic crisis is the fact that it has hit all asset classes with devastating effect. The t...