Insurance industry trends and future of reinsurance. Global trends, emerging markets, insurance industry regulation, future of banks and financial services. Corporate insurance and risk management. How to reduce risks in underwriting and importance of diversity. How to tackle institutional blindness and develop agile strategy, dynamic leadership to manage rapid change. Key issues for boards of every global insurer. Climate change risks, macroeconomic and geopolitical risks. Supply chain, logistics and manufacturing risks. Retail, e-commerce and cybersecurity risks. How risk profiles are changing and why risk management and corporate insurance requires multidimensional insights into what the future could be like.

Why many trends are changing more slowly than most analysts think, a reality check, and which trends are most likely to transform our global future. Why so many Futurist and economics forecasts have turned out to be so badly wrong. Lessons from Futurewise published in 1998 and why they remain so important today in trends forecasting for the next 20 years. See Patrick Dixon’s latest book The Future of Almost Everything - published by Profile Books. Patrick Dixon has been predicting major trends, risks and opportunity for global corporations for 20 years, with a track record of success that speaks for itself - see http://www.globalchange.com for hundreds of past predictions, matched against the reality of what actually happened, plus videos of hundreds of keynotes and articles on current issues and events, as well as what they mean for your business, personal life and wider world.

Reasons for the US election victory of Donald Trump will be debated for decades. Here are major long-term factors at work across America and in every other democratic nation, which I described in The Future of Almost Everything - my latest book, see below, (with additions in italics today).  These set the backdrop for dramatic events over the last few hours (9 November 2016), and also influenced the Brexit vote.  Read on for"  What happens when faith in ideologies and parties dies; why tribalism is the most powerful force in the world today; why President Trump will struggle to deliver.

Future of Print Media and Quality Print Advertising: The truth about print media - winners and loses in the intense fight for attention, in a mobile-enabled world where different types of print media will continue to have a powerful and enduring role in many nations.  And why print media still benefits from an important and poorly understood biological advantage...

Most debates in board rooms about the future are not about trends which are usually obvious, but rather about speed and precise timing. For example, despite many predictions of the cashless society, this year more paper money is in circulation across Europe than ever before.

And while similar predictions have been made about the paperless office, the fact is that more paper is printed each day per manager than ever before in most corporations. Paperless offices are such a last-century idea.  92% of executives print things each day, 45% print 10 pages or more and 15% print more than 50.  As I predicted years ago, paper will be with us for a long time yet, for reasons I explain below. 

The main reason is speed and efficiency - the more senior the leader, the more valuable their time, the more they are likely to need printed material to read or refer to. Board papers or legal documents are two important examples.

We will see more genetically modified crops in many regions, with crops resistant to disease, drought, and able to grow in salty soil. Genetically modified animals will also be widely consumed in over 30 per cent of the world by 2040.

Expect a rise in the proportion of global grain production used to feed animals to more than 45 per cent beyond 2025. Already more than 70 per cent of grain produced by wealthy nations is fed to livestock. There are absolute limits on the availability of suitable land. Therefore, the price of farmland is likely to rise in many nations over the next 20 years.