Optimistic Burnett goes neutral on banks and euro

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Neptune's Rob Burnett has moved from an underweight to a neutral position on banks for the first time since 2009 on his £1.12bn European Opportunities fund in the belief a solution to the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis is "imminent".

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