Supertrends : Winning Investment Strategies for the Coming Decades

In the wake of the market meltdown, stock market turmoil and a sharp fall in housing prices, investors everywhere are looking for upside. Where will the next bull run come from?In Supertrends: Winning Investments Strategies for the Coming Decades, seasoned investor and entrepreneur, Lars Tvede shows investors and entrepreneurs where to seek out the best investment opportunities for the next 20 years. Having himself run a hugely profitable hedge fund through seeking out these opportunities and having set up and sold numerous award winning technology and new media companies, Tvede shows readers how to identify solid opportunities and illustrates strategies to make money from them. Central to the book are the new investment opportunities that he sees coming over the next two decades. These include the huge growth of the global population and the subsequent prospects for investors, including natural resources, alternative energy technologies, the luxury markets, new technologies, biotech and many more.Written for both new and seasoned investors and entrepreneurs, Supertrends provides solid advice on developing a sound investment strategy and where the new opportunities to make significant returns will arise.

Lars Tvede (www.larstvede.com) holds a Master’s degree in Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in International Commerce, and he is a certified financial derivatives trader from the National Futures Association in Chicago. He spent 11 years as derivatives trader, portfolio manager and investment banker before moving to the telecommunication and software industries in the mid 1990s. Since then he has co-founded and seed-funded a number of award-winning high-tech companies in the satellite communication, Internet, and mobile space. He is also founder of Beluga, a highly profitable investment and derivatives trading company, and has most recently co-founded CarryQuote, a financial information provider which won the coveted Red Herring Award as one of the world’s top 100 private technology companies in 2009, as well as the IMD Startup Competition as one of Switzerland’s most promising startups in 2010.

Over the years, Lars has authored/co-authored many books covering financial trading, marketing research, market planning, general economics, crises theory and telecommunication/software. Lars was listed in The Guru Guide to Marketing as one of the World’s 62 leading thinkers on marketing strategy.

Lars Tvede lives in Switzerland with his family. His main hobbies are skiing, sailing and collecting Italian sports cars and wine.