The chairman gets his knickers in a twist when one of his fund managers starts making jokes about socks
"Did your fund manager really say what I think he said?" I asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we met for a pint of Bizarre Mental Image in The Purgle Has Landed straight after this very magazine's splendid Northern Markets Forum in Edinburgh. "I can't believe he really said what I think he said." "Oh no," sighed the chairman. "Tell me he didn't break the pact." "The pact?" I said. "What pact?" "Oh, you know," the chairman replied. "The current agreement between all the fund management groups that none of us admit we really haven't got th...
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