When timing isn't everything

The chairman sees the market timing debate as a way of scuppering the move towards single pricing

"I hear Alliance & Leicester's party in the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery was called off because of the demonstration in Trafalgar Square," said the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we enjoyed a pint or two of Wealth 150 in The Gottabean Overestimate. "Indeed they did," I said, bracing myself for what I knew was coming next. "So," said the chairman already chuckling to himself, "you could say that you get a harsher protestor with Alliance & Leicester." "You could indeed," I said. "And it took you how long to come up with that line?" ...