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GOSLINGS GROUSE

Celebrity juice

Investment Week | 09 Sep 2011

We do not really have celebrities in this industry, unlike other major sectors. Vacuum cleaners have James Dyson, cheap airlines have Stelios, and for everything else there is Richard Branson.

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The Saviour from Omaha

Thank god for Warren Buffett, he really is the saviour. His latest venture into the markets – buying $5bn of stock in Bank of America – reminds us of another time when he did his bit for America and capitalism.

Investment Week | 02 Sep 2011

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Reading the riot act

It is quite strange being abroad when your city and country is burning, as it was for me while I was away on holiday during the recent riots.

Investment Week | 26 Aug 2011

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Self-servicing customer service

Trust is the most important asset the industry has, so imagine the nightmare if it is lost or threatened.

Investment Week | 08 Aug 2011

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Propertying up the bar

Did you see the article in the Sunday Times recently about ISA millionaires? It was one of those classic pieces which is everything that is right (or wrong) about our industry – at least according to a mate of mine.

Investment Week | 29 Jul 2011

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Out of the gloom

I have only ever met Gerald Ronson once, and that might be overstating it. He was standing in the dock at Southwark Crown Court, accused of his involvement in something older readers will remember as the Guinness scandal.

Investment Week | 22 Jul 2011

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Gosling's Grouse: What’s in a name?

What would you call your asset management business if you were launching one? I would call mine Gosling Asset Management, which I could shorten to GAM, but then again a very good group called GAM was already in existence long before upstarts like me tried to get in on the act.

Investment Week | 18 Jul 2011

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Service with some guile

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”

Investment Week | 15 Jul 2011

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Who owns the clients?

A fund manager recently told me an adviser asked him to speak to a group of his clients. Nothing unusual in that, you might say. The manager turned up at the venue – a local library outside of London – and expected a modest crowd of 20 to 30 people.

Investment Week | 08 Jul 2011

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Cruel to be conned

I met a conman the other week – a fully-fledged fraudster. And I will tell you, it is frightening how easy it is for people to get taken in by them.

Investment Week | 01 Jul 2011

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Motley Arch cru

When the compulsory begging bowl went around the industry to compensate Keydata investors, the industry was rightly indignant.

Investment Week | 24 Jun 2011

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Wage of innocence

As many of you who follow football will know, this year is the 50th anniversary of arguably the most important development in the game, since it was introduced over 100 years ago.

Investment Week | 17 Jun 2011

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Gosling's Grouse: Hair we go again

If you suddenly inherited £30,000,would you invest it in a pension that was tax efficient, put it in an ISA for you and your partner and the balance away for the kids, or get a hair transplant à la Wayne Rooney?

Investment Week | 09 Jun 2011

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Mallowed be thy name

Have you heard of the marshmallow test? It is very famous in behavioural psychology circles, yet it had passed me by until I read a recent interview with political guru David Brooks in the Sunday Times.

Investment Week | 03 Jun 2011

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Still not H.A.PPI

Frankly, I do not give a super-injunction which Premier League footballer has been playing away from home with which reality TV star, but I am still incensed about PPI, even though it seems to have conveniently disappeared as an important story.

Investment Week | 27 May 2011

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Gosling's Grouse: Baying for blood

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