Jewel of the Square Mile

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The chairman tempts a fund manager out of self-imposed exile with the assistance of his psychic, Madame Zaza

"So what's on the agenda today?" said the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBluePlanet - rather defensively, I thought - the moment I sat down with my pint of Artemis Coup in The Ginormous Paycheque. "Actually, why don't you let me guess? "Will it be some witty remarks about the recent sale of our SmallBlue Guinea Bissau split capital investment trust operation? Or perhaps a few comic asides on the recent split cap unpleasantness and SmallBlue's tactically shrewd and utterly justifiable decision to remove itself from all that tiresome horse-trading with the FSA...

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