A few pints in The Gammy Knee and the chairman is contemplating the notion of fund manager groupies
"Do you think it's possible for a fund manager to have groupies?" I asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we sat in The Gammy Knee, a Henley-on-Thames pub we frequent every summer to drink pints of Grandma Webb's Hopefully Swift Recovery and ignore the rowing. "I think you're being a little unfair," replied the chairman as he followed my gaze to where SmallBlue's legendary income manager Neil Hugefund was standing surrounded by what seemed to be a swarm of fawning brokers. "From the little I know about the subject, I believe the term 'grou...
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