Consider long-term trends

When making investment decisions it is easy to get caught up in the here and now, but for long-term success investors must consider the bigger picture and issues such as demographic changes

Investors often get too caught up in short-term events when making their investment decisions. By doing so, they risk missing out on longer-term developments that potentially will influence stock markets for several years, if not decades. For instance, shifts in demographic trends over the next 30 years will create dramatic economic and social changes in the world economies. Although these trends are long term in nature and will have lengthy impacts, what may be surprising to many investors is that they have already started to affect the very structures of societies and, therefore, are pavi...