The chairman turns all wistful as he discusses his ultimate dream creation, Sofalia
"I have a dream," announced the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we sank a couple of pints of Aird's Rocket at The Fund Managers' Short-Term Aspiration. "Is it that at some stage in the nearish future you'll actually finish the day with same number of fund managers with which you started it?" I asked. "No, it's not," replied the chairman, refusing to rise to the bait. "My dream – or my ambition, as it will be described in a hastily assembled and even more hastily withdrawn press release before being watered down almost completely to a collectiv...
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