The chairman gets a ground-breaking vote of confidence from Wiseguys Investment Trust
"Cheer up," I said to the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as I walked into The Wise Men's Council, an Anglo-Saxon theme pub also known as The Ethelred the Unsteady. "You have a face as long as a portfolio run by someone who thinks this market upturn will last for ever. What's up? Don't tell me the press have found out you were one of the inventors of the precipice bond?" "Will you keep your voice down?" hissed the chairman. "You know we never mention the P-word in public - and certainly not any passing involvement I may or may not have had with the...
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