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The Chairman's plans for world domination and time travel are side-stepped with some incredible industry statistics

"So let me get this straight," I said to the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBluePlanet as we shared a few bottles of Chateau de Blonay at The Wise Guy. "You own a bunch of units in SmallBlue's two funds of funds, the Strategically Tactical and Tactically Strategic portfolios, and they've both finally got around to buying shares in the SmallBlue Financials fund?" "That's right," nodded the chairman. "OK," I continued. "And in turn SmallBlue Financials owns a permanent stake in SmallBluePlanet's as-yet-unlisted-but undeniably-pregnant-with-promise shares?" "Co...

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