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A bold future may await rust belt cities in North America and Europe if asset manager Pippa Malmgren's vision of smart manufacturing hubs and recent research on revitalised industrial centres come to fruition.

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When laid-off traders ask Malmgren where they will be in five years' time, she tells them 'you're going to Arkansas!'

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