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Risk is back as investors shrug off Trump and buy up bitcoin, stocks

After retreating to havens like gold and hoarding cash, traders are searching for bigger returns, sending markets and crypto to records.

Investors are aggressively buying into riskier assets, sending bitcoin and companies focused on artificial intelligence to records as they shrug off months of uncertainty caused by the Trump administration’s policies.

After retreating to safe havens like gold and hoarding cash amid months of sharemarket turmoil, institutional investors are adding more risk – and the opportunity for bigger returns – to their portfolios.

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Luke Kinsella is a journalist for The Australian Financial Review.
Sarah Jones is the Financial Review’s markets editor based in the Sydney newsroom. She has covered financial markets, economics and asset management for more than two decades including 12 years for Bloomberg in London. Connect with Sarah on Twitter. Email Sarah at sa.jones@afr.com

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