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Damning words for IFAs from the chairman as SmallBlue shamelessly promotes hedge funds

"Do you think Nils Taube ever tires of being called an industry veteran?" asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBlue Planet as we enjoyed a couple of pints of Triple Century in The Better Think Of An Extra-Humorous Topic Then. "Maybe when people first started calling him that," I said. "Although I imagine that was somewhere just into the third of his six decades in this business. "What about you though? People must have called you that plenty of times." "Perhaps," shrugged the chairman. "But rarely to my face - and even then never more than once. I have acqu...