I am increasingly coming to the view that UK investors should consider buying into high quality smaller US growth stocks. The UK has a number of high quality quoted companies that dominate in niche markets, businesses like Rotork and Aveva. The US also has such companies but there are more of them. The other big change is the amount of information available over the Internet. Google these companies and look on their web sites and you will find tons of information; if you want to become an expert you can. A few years ago there was much less information available on most UK companies than there is now on great numbers of US shares. If you study their web sites you will also realise how many of the stories you read in the city pages of your newspaper are copied more or less verbatim from press releases. As I find out when I talk to companies it is becoming harder and harder for them to arouse interest from the press or indeed from investment analysts.

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