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The chairman 'volunteers' a member of his sales team for the charity mugging...erm...boxing event

"Are you sure he's supposed to look like that after just one round in the ring?" I asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBluePlanet as we enjoyed the spectacle of assorted industry luminaries trying to beat each other up at the recent charity boxing event, The Rumble in the Concrete Jungle, or whatever it was called. The fight that currently had the entire audience spellbound with a sort of grim fascination was between some fund manager, who looked like he may have boxed a bit before, and SmallBluePlanet's long-suffering sales director Mike Rolex, who looked...

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