The Isa man stayeth at home

Small Blue Planet

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The chairman contemplates the mysterious disappearance of the Isa season

"Thank Soros I don"t have to do that again for another nine months," sighed the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we emerged blinking from Bank tube station and headed for a pint of Adviser"s Angst at The Same Joke As Last Week. Every Isa season the chairman likes to make monthly visits around London Underground so he can check the sites of SmallBlue"s advertisements and also what the competition are up to. I"ve tended to string along over the past few years and, while it has never been easy for a man more used to life in a limo - him not me, than...

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