Full of Eastern promise

Before they joined the EU, a plain vanilla European fund could not invest in any of the accession countries. There were some strong performers representing good opportunities, but no one could tap into them. For funds trying to invest across Europe as a whole, these countries will not be a large part of the pot but they do present us with some buying opportunities. The countries to initially consider are Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, which are presently the only accession countries which have a market capitalisation in excess of e20bn. To put this into context, food and beverag...