In addition to AI, Five Key Trends That Will Change How You Invest and Lead Your Global Business

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Barron's put together a package to spur investors to ponder how changes under way today may cause dominoes to topple years from now, creating new winners and losers across the investing landscape. 

They asked five investing pros to share their top stock picks; they asked Barron’s Roundtable member David Giroux of T. Rowe Price for his top transformative trends; and they laid out how to find a good thematic fund. 

What's more important and related to this blog, is they also explore five key trends that will upend economies and companies.  

It's not just AI.  Important to read.

Japan Is Red Hot With Tourists and Investors

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Japan, declares tourist after tourist, investor after investor, is red hot. The yen is tumbling, the shopping is amazing, the stock market is flying, the sushi is cheap. It is also, perhaps, the only place in the world right now where you can buy a globally successful $20bn company for free.

Like all good tricks, this so-far-hypothetical $20bn great gratis grab takes a bit of setting-up. For a start ...