Delegates take the healthy option

Delegates at Investor's Week's Investor 2001 conference held in London last fortnight have named p...

Delegates at Investor's Week's Investor 2001 conference held in London last fortnight have named pharmaceuticals and Europe as the market sectors and geographic regions most likely to produce growth in the future. About 35.5% of conference participants attending one stream of talks named pharmaceuticals as the sector they expected to perform best in 2001, with financial services and banking receiving 23.4% of the votes. The leisure and entertainment industry ran fourth (13.2%), and despite recent falls in tech share prices, technology ranked as the next most probable to outperform this...