2020 vision: What will be the big market trends over the next decade?

Ben Kumar, investment manager at Seven Investment Management, looks at the important changes happening in the world and the effect that this will have on investing in the next ten years. A century ago, the Roaring Twenties were about to begin. As the recovery from WWI turned into an economic boom, technological development and social liberty started to modernise almost everything about life. The spread of phones and movies transformed communications forever. Cars and planes came into widespread use, creating the tourism and oil industries. The 1920s also ushered in a century of US ...