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The chairman is flabbergasted by the suggestion that any of his managers might fail to return from sabbatical

"Don't you think it's rather appropriate that the FSA has fined Sesame for something called pensions unlocking?" chuckled the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we drank pints of So-Called Sabbatical at The Increasingly Overused Euphemism. "Ali Baba would have been proud," I agreed. "And do you think the appointment of Henderson UK Capital Growth's new manager might be described as a Rash decision?" continued the chairman, trying to look as if he had just thought of the 'joke' as opposed to having spent the past few days polishing it up. "Only if...

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