Nothing scares investors more than China
Investors are afraid of China.
According to Bank of America's latest fund manager survey, China poses the largest "tail risk" to the investment world. A "tail risk" is something seen as a remote event that could derail people's best-laid plans for their investments. In other words, it's a long shot but it would be a problem if it came to pass.
Combined with concerns about another emerging market debt crisis - something, perhaps, akin to the 1997 Asian debt crisis - about 75% of investors are worried about some event from the other side of the world.
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And more broadly investors are just barely positive on the global economic outlook for the next year, the most bearish outlook since July 2012.
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Of course, a "tail risk" is something most people aren't expecting. So there's that.
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