Bang on trend: what's happening across the globe

Some in the investment community treat it with scepticism and see it as a kind of abstract, academic exercise. But the truth is that analysing and understanding megatrends – the powerful geopolitical, environmental, economic, social and demographic forces shaping the globe – is one of the most practical endeavours investors can undertake. Indeed, in our experience, it is a discipline investors neglect at their peril. That the world is witnessing a period of upheaval is not in doubt. The ubiquity of technology and science, the growing economic power of emerging markets such as China an...