European smaller cos offer best five and 10 year returns

European smaller companies have been the best performing sector over five and 10 years, according to the AITC's March 2001 statistics. Over five years the share price, size-weighted average, for this sector was 305% and over 10 years was 692.3%, compared with five and 10 year averages of 188.3% and 335.1% for UK smaller companies trusts. The average for all AITC conventional trusts over the same time periods was 183.1% and 367.6% respectively. There are only five trusts in the European smaller companies sector, of which only three have 10-year records. Hendersons' TR European Gr...