The vultures circle around the chairman waiting to rip off his brilliant ideas
"Is it my imagination or is there a most unseasonable amount of activity going on in our world at the moment?" I asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBluePlanet as we enjoyed a few more pints of Itzkummy Gnome at The Rising Surge of Irrational Hope. "It's almost as if there are fund managers out there who haven't realised the season is well underway. "First there was all that fun and games about who got to own Gartmore when the music stopped and that was followed by the exodus of a series of longstanding industry names from their longstanding industry jobs....
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