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Schroders recently hosted its annual Secular Market Forum. We invited some of the world's leading industry, academic and financial commentators to debate the issues which are shaping the world economy today. These are "slow burn" issues, which can influence markets gradually over time, or have the potential to explode into major concerns.
Are financial markets underestimating geopolitical risk? How can we protect portfolios? Professor Niall Ferguson argues that there are a lot of lessons investors could learn from the past.