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"So what's your policy on 'jilted' investors?" I asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBluePlanet when I met up with him at The Framlington Star's Veto the other week for a bottle or two of Chateau Needabuyerfirst. "Oh, we pretty much take anybody's cash regardless of marital status – or creed, class, colour or anything else for that matter," he replied. "Why do you ask?" "It's just something I saw recently about Redmayne-Bentley announcing it had opened its doors to 'jilted' investors," I said. "Although I'm not sure the firm was necessarily talking abou...
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