Risk.net’s top 10 investment risks for 2025

Trade wars, a stock market crash, strikes and riots, political violence: buy-siders share their fears as the year begins

Late last year, for its annual ranking of investment risks, Risk.net asked investors what worries them most. The direction of their thinking shows as much in the answers they didn’t give as in the ones they did.

Gone from the current list are a refinancing crunch, a real estate crash, the possible resurfacing of banking troubles and turmoil in private markets.

It’s clear what’s changed. The US Federal Reserve began a long-expected rate-cutting cycle in September 2024. And with the declining cost

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