Meet Mr 24-carat Stick Everything this man touches seemingly turns to gold. But he's not the only one with the Midas touch. Patrick Collinson talks to fund managers who have managed to buck the market.
The bear who has been having a picnic in Europe Europe has been a graveyard for the hopes of small British investors. An onslaught of marketing by fund management groups in the 1990s lured investors into funds that, it was promised, would benefit as sluggish European corporates embraced Anglo-Saxon capitalism (downsizing, outsourcing, etc) and began generating huge profits. The euro would help, too.
