With the world's population ageing and decreasing rates of fertility it is vital that investors take into account demographic changes in order to anticipate potential influences in the stockmarket in years to come, explains Virginie Maisonneuve
Investors often get too caught up in short-term market or economic events when making their investment decisions. By doing so, they risk missing out on longer-term developments that will potentially influence stockmarkets for several years, if not decades. Population explosion The world's population is expected to grow to nine billion from six billion by the year 2050. Nearly all of this increase - 98% of it - will be in what are today termed emerging markets. This means over 85% of the world's population will live in emerging economies at that time. Some developing countries, such as C...
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