Senate Autumn Blog: Why we all need to be futurologists

This year's Investment Week Senate Autumn Investment Conference may have been held at an historic mansion house estate (Luton Hoo) but the thoughts of our delegates and fund managers were very firmly on the future.

For many, the last few months have been spent trying to respond to client queries about what comes next for global markets over the rest of the year and going into 2012. Unfortunately, our Senate was unable to provide the conclusive answer clients may be searching for as a common theme amongst our fund managers was uncertainty about what Q4 may bring. However, our two keynote speakers managed to put our short term woes into some kind of perspective with their focus on the longer term global trends driving returns over the coming decades-not just the remainder of 2011. Fidelity's Antho...