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5 geopolitical keys for strategic investors

As the world's nations choose sides—or don't—new opportunities and risks will take shape as the global stage is reset.

By: Fidelity Investments

Updated: 10/19/2023

Key Takeaways

Today’s nonaligned group of nations is more economically consequential than during the Cold War era.
We begin this new era at a historically high level of globalization.
Today’s geopolitical blocs represent looser affiliations and less cohesive groups than “democracy vs. communism.”
Nonaligned countries have the lowest economic exposure to geographic political risk.
Opponents generally have the highest economic exposure to geographic geopolitical risk.

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