The IT buying opportunities as political strife clouds Europe outlook

Kepler Partners' Pascal Dowling analyses how an already 'politically fractured' Europe will cope with a number of elections in the coming year and highlights the European-focused investment trusts positioned to capture the opportunities from a sell-off

The UK's referendum on membership of the European Union has produced very little so far, in terms of concrete change. Instead it seems to have become the most bitterly fought contest to see who gets to say: "I told you so" in modern history. To this end, the remain side continues to forecast catastrophe for Albion with the theatrical zeal one would normally associate with a staging of King Lear, while the leave side has seized upon the news that the damage they have done to the economy is "not as bad as everyone thought it would be", as if this were in some way a reflection of the wisdom...