Five ways to stress test your stocks

Nevermind the banks, have you ever stress-tested your wealth? If not, Tim Bennett thinks it's time you did. Here, he recommends five ways to test whether your shares could cope with another big dip, and tips one stock that looks particularly resilient.

Stress testing banks is all the rage. But what about other sectors? Here are five ways to test your shares to see how they'd cope with another big dip.

1. Check for debt distress

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Tim graduated with a history degree from Cambridge University in 1989 and, after a year of travelling, joined the financial services firm Ernst and Young in 1990, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1994.

He then moved into financial markets training, designing and running a variety of courses at graduate level and beyond for a range of organisations including the Securities and Investment Institute and UBS. He joined MoneyWeek in 2007.