A case of Arachnophilia

The chairman places IFAs below spiders in the list of necessary evils but the MD understands their worth

"What's your view on independent financial advisers?" I asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we shared a glass or two of Broccado at The Interesting Distribution of Top Jobs. "I suppose they're a necessary evil," he replied. "You know, like dentists or spiders or cod-liver oil." "I think what the chairman is saying, although he might possibly have phrased it a smidge better, is that IFAs are good, good people who perform a very valuable service in often the most trying of circumstances and whose tremendous contribution to the British way of...