What would you do if you were given $10,000 and you wanted to invest it in one go, with a defined timeframe, before leaving it to grow?

That’s the question Smart Investor put to investment analysts and financial advisers in the hope of extracting some lessons on the importance of an investor’s time horizon, and how that interacts with their risk tolerance. The goal for each investor with their hypothetical $10,000 was to maximise returns without taking undue risk.