It’s high time CIOs face their trade war fears

If there’s any positive to come from US president Donald Trump’s surprise tweet on May 5 that he would level tariffs on another $200 billion of imports from China, it’s that it serves as a wake-up call for investors. Not only is the year-long dispute between the world’s two largest economies far from over, it could become a full-blown, protracted trade war. Yet asset owners and investors don’t appear to have been sufficiently concerned about this outcome. Many investors appear t…