US Special talking points: 'Trisk', 'active ETFs' and disruptors

Election threat to global markets

UK investors may be preoccupied by the Brexit debate, but fund managers have urged them to look across the Pond for a potentially even bigger threat to global markets.

OMGI chief executive Richard Buxton said recently that global markets will suffer at least one "panic moment" in the run-up to the US election on 8 November, as the likelihood of Donald Trump's presidency increases. Buxton echoes recent comments by M&G bond manager Richard Woolnough who said he is "far more worried" about the US presidential election than the EU referendum. Many commentators taking part in our US Special edition this week have also cautioned that markets have not yet factored in 'Trisk' or Trump risk. "They are not doing this at the moment, but in 1980 people didn't t...