The chairman is forced to meet the public when he sits on a Q&A panel at a London Roadshow
"Do you think we'll escape with our dignity intact this time?" I asked the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBluePlanet as we nervously waited to appear on a private investor Q&A panel at the Association of Investment Companies' splendid "Back by popular demand" London Roadshow last week. "Frankly, I'll be happy if we escape with our trousers," he muttered. "Speak for yourself," I replied. "It's not my fault if the average age of this audience is enough for you to qualify as a pin-up. What I don't understand is why the London audiences always have to be so rude...
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