Ep 30: John Turner on stock market bubbles

There have always been economic booms and busts and, sooner or later, stock markets are bound to crash. The key question for investors is: what, if anything can you do about it? How can you build a portfolio to withstand a crash and minimise its impacts? And how can you avoid being swept along by the euphoria that tends to precede a crash? ROBIN POWELL has been putting these questions to an expert on bubbles and crashes — JOHN TURNER [https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/john-turner#:~:text=John%20Turner%20has%20been%20a,published%20by%20Cambridge%20University%20Press.], Professor of Finance and Financial History at Queen's University Belfast.