The chairman launches a fund on the back of the English rugby team's world cup winning success
"You don't think you might be seen as rather jumping on a bandwagon if you go ahead and launch this fund," I said to the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we sat drinking a bottle of Ridge's World Tour in The Merrill's Turn. "I mean, purely from a practical point of view, exactly how much choice will such a fund's manager have when it comes to manufacturers of sweet chariots?" "Oh please," snorted the chairman. "How stupid do you think we are? The SmallBlue Planet Sweet Chariot Fund won't be investing in Ben Hur's vehicle of choice. That would be ...
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