The chairman runs out of fund managers and goes in search of the perfect recruitment advertisement
"Do you remember my little recruitment problem we talked about a few weeks back?" asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBluePlanet, when we met up the other day for a couple of bottles of Chateau Indemnity in The Gauntlet Club. "You mean how you keep trying to make up for lost fund managers by merging with other investment groups only to see your new managers leave because they're not happy with the new company?" I replied. "Sure I do – although I think I managed to string it out for longer than one sentence last time. Why do you mention it?" "The situati...
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