Europe: Time to buy?

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Don't listen to the scaremongering - with stocks on the rise and an improved macro outlook, Europe offers rich pickings.

Open pretty much any newspaper today – or scroll through the news channels on television – and the chances are you will be bombarded with a stream of panic-stricken news about the European debt crisis, and what it supposedly means for all of us. The word ‘Europe’ has become synonymous with crisis and catastrophe, and it has sent some into blind panic. According to one recent poll, this same panic has filtered through to the adviser community: an Alpha Generators survey polling 366 delegates earlier this month found three quarters of advisers believe the eurozone debt crisis poses the ...

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