Odd day at Black Rock

The chairman ponders executive coaching to get back in touch with a new generation of investors

"Oh come on - are you seriously trying to tell me you wouldn't have responded in exactly the same way?" persisted the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBluePlanet as we enjoyed a bottle or two of Chateau Lazarus at The Manek for Some Seasons. "That chap in your investor roadshow audience was evidently labouring under the misapprehension he was a bit of a wag," I conceded. "Even so, when he stood up to ask how you planned to make money out of sick birds, I think pretty much everybody knew he was talking about contrarian investing in the context of avian flu and not...