Global trends 2025: A transformed world

US National Intelligence Agency  |  1 October 2009
 

Understanding key global mega trends is vital when you're constructing portfolios intended for use in 10-15 years. Every four years, the US National Intelligence Council issues a future-looking report about global trends, based on research across all the US intelligence agencies.

By 2025, this latest NIC report predicts the demise of both US power and the power of Western-style democracy. The outcome of this shift is murky, but the implications for economies and markets are clear:

"No single outcome seems preor...