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The Wirecard affair is causing upheaval in the portfolios of many private investors and investment professionals. Sitting pretty, by contrast, is anyone who didn't get swept up in the Wirecard hype of recent years. Tamo the elephant from Kronberg Zoo shows us how it's done. His elephantine savvy is baked into the quirion portfolios, too.

A commentary by Prof. Dr. Stefan May, financial expert and head of investment management at Quirin Privatbank and quirion.

We asked Arndt Kussmann, Head of Portfolio Concepts at Quirin Privatbank, about the typical mistakes investors make. In this interview, he explains the psychological traps that private investors often fall into, the negative effect they have on returns, and how to avoid them over the long term.

Karl Matthäus Schmidt is the founder of quirion and CEO of Quirin Privatbank, to which quirion belongs. On the podcast "klug anlegen," in conversation with host Andreas Franik, he shares his perspective on investing, finance and current developments on the capital markets.

The coronavirus crisis has now had the stock exchanges in its grip for about four weeks. In view of the enormous losses, and because no end is yet in sight, many investors understandably ask themselves:

We are currently living through extremely turbulent times marked by great uncertainty. The capital markets are in an extremely emotional mood, set against economic consequences that will, without doubt, be overcome sooner or later.