When Alastair Campbell is guest speaker at a dinner, the chairman finds he just can't contain his excitement
"This doesn't look like your average crowd of AIC Annual Dinner-goers," I remarked to the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBluePlanet as we wandered down Park Lane amid a tide of black-dressed and sequinned-tied - sorry, that should probably be black-tied and sequinned-dressed - and really rather glamorous, fun-looking people. "That is not to say the investment trust fraternity are not glamorous or fun," I continued. "It goes without saying they are renowned for being some of the most glamorous and fun people in the wonderful world of collective investments. ...
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