The pressure is on anyone deciding to speak at a SmallBluePlanet conference
"Is it me or does Richard Buxton sound like David Gower?" whispered the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBluePlanet as we sat at the back of the Skandia Cashfinder Conference at the sumptuous Hotel Alpha Plus waiting for lunch. "I hadn't really thought," I whispered back. "Anyway, I'm afraid I'm having trouble tuning back into the real world after that lively speech by Mr Cazalet." It had in fact been 20 minutes since the universe's premier with-profits expert had finished his assault on the world record for the number of slides used in a presentation and heade...
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