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Veteran investor Nick Train: ‘A big takeover bid may turn tide for the UK’

Can London break out of its capital markets slump with a marquee takeover?

Veteran investor Nick Train: ‘A big takeover bid may turn tide for the UK’

One of Britain’s best-known stock- pickers says a takeover bid for a “substantive UK company” could change investor sentiment about unloved domestic shares.

“I’m a UK equity guy. I have been for a very long time,” Nick Train told Financial News. “I want to believe the UK stock market is home to some world-class businesses and there are opportunities to invest. But there is a big element of wanting that as well as believing that.”

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