The chairman vents at journalists' tendencies to reproduce misquotes, clearly unwilling to Take That any longer...
"Everything changes - I know that," said the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we enjoyed a few pints of Slightly Unhappy at The Ropey Retraction. "But, whatever you do to me in any other regard, you are the one person I never want quoting me in a way that could lower me in the eyes of Her Majesty's financial services industry." "Actually, I don't think that would be possible," I replied. "Still, the point I think you're alluding to - whether every fund manager, MD, adviser or whatever should actively have to go off the record every time they'r...
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