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Three lessons: Volatility can be transformed into opportunities.

RE-FOCUSED: The significant volatility of the equity markets recently has injected a needed clear-eyed evaluation of risk and reward, one that recent market calm has pushed to the back of investors’ minds.
RE-FOCUSED: The significant volatility of the equity markets recently has injected a needed clear-eyed evaluation of risk and reward, one that recent market calm has pushed to the back of investors’ minds.

The recent stocks roller-coaster reminded me of three lessons I learned many years ago as an investor in emerging markets. If well understood and applied, these precepts can turn unsettling volatility surges into longer-term ­opportunities. • Long periods of market calm create the technical conditions for violent air pockets. Until recently, the most distinctive feature

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