Keeping cool about seeing red

The chairman gets a lesson in live and let live when an oppressed minority gets together to blow its own trumpet

"You know," said the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we sat through a black-tie industry event at some posh London venue. "I had no idea so many of them were independent financial advisers. Come to think of it, I can't think of a time when I've been in a room with so many of them. Frankly, if I wasn't the enlightened human being I am, I'd be finding the experience a little creepy." "Me too," I said. "If I wasn't equally enlightened, I mean. But I think we're just going to have to open up our hearts here and put up with being in the minority for...