They say the WannaCry cyberattack that locked up 200,000 thousand computers in 150 countries – impacting everything from hospitals to banks to factories to schools and more – was probably the work of amateurs. Not exactly a comforting thought, is it? Most companies are not sufficiently prepared for cyberattacks and cannot risk being hit by one. Cybercrime damages are expected to cost $6 trillion dollars a year by 2021, double the $3 trillion in 2016. That makes cybersecurity a powerful NexGen investment theme that has to be on your radar.

At the start of 2017, there were two early elections circled on investors’ calendars that held the power to change Europe forever: the Dutch in mid-March and the French in April. After last year’s surprising Brexit vote in favor of the U.K. leaving the European Union (EU), there was a real possibility that the far-right populists could win the vote and lead to similar outcomes in both the Netherlands and France. Now global investors turn their attention to the even bigger German national election in September.