As barometers of the UK economy go, the luxurious Grove hotel in Hertfordshire last week was as powerful as they come.
Some 150 company bosses had assembled at the annual Berenberg conference to meet 300 of the biggest investors in the UK, Europe and the US. The goal: to persuade funds to part with their dollars, pounds and euros and invest in UK shares.
With money men and women responsible for more than £50 billion in the room, there are few opportunities for inward investment into the UK as big as the Berenberg summit.
Many investors have pulled their money out of UK-only funds to jump into US tech stocks
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And, while there remained a fair smattering of bearishness among delegates, for most, the outlook for British enterprises was more positive than it has been for years.
As Henry Lowson, a
