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"So have you got yourself a prenuptial agreement?" I whispered to the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBluePlanet as we waited for one of the greatest fund managers of his or any other generation to take the stage and pronounce on whether the market outlook was essentially a wet weekend or something more biblical. "Good grief, no," the chairman whispered back. "I never wanted one." "That's very enlightened of you," I said. "What drove your thinking?" "I have a funny feeling it was love," replied the chairman disarmingly. "That and the fact that - contrary to what...

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