Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on July 23, 2026.
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It has been a volatile year for global markets, rewarding some trades while punishing others.
CNBC asked six investors about the biggest risks they see and how they are positioning portfolios in response. Despite differing views on the biggest threat to markets, the investors repeatedly returned to the same response: diversify beyond this year’s biggest winners.
Fading U.S. exceptionalism
Chris Rush, investment manager at IBOSS, told CNBC the biggest risk investors were taking was being “too concentrated in the winners of the past and missing other opportunities around the world.”
“It is easy to focus on the…
