New research from ETF provider GraniteShares has shown that 74 percent of wealth managers and IFAs expect fund managers to make greater use of leveraged investment strategies and shorting over the next three years. 

The rise may be fuelled, in part, by the increasing use of social media to communicate market news, which in turn makes investors vulnerable to ‘fake’ news.

In addition, GraniteShares’ research found that 60 percent of wealth managers and IFAs believed that their clients would increase their exposure to UK stocks in 2020, with the main reason being they...