Four of Europe's most solid stocks

Europe is once again one of the world's least-favourite investment destinations. But there are opportunities for patient investors, says Julian Pendock. Here, he picks four reliable stocks to invest in now.

Europe is once again one of the world's least-favourite investment destinations. As ever, positioning oneself away from the herd rather than chasing after it presents opportunities for patient investors.

There are reasons to be very wary about Europe if one is simply buying the market in its entirety. Europe is made up of more than Greece. Therein lies the irony. If Europe was fiscally homogenous, Greece would not be in trouble. The fact that Greece finds herself a fiscal pariah means that markets are in fact discriminating between solvent and insolvent countries. But in many cases equity prices have been marked down indiscriminately.

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