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The group is still having trouble hanging on to managers responsible for 'all that incomey stuff'

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in," came a plaintive cry from the other side of the pub as the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBluePlanet and I were enjoying a pint or two of Brief Retirement at the To Errol Is Human. "Oh do stop being so melodramatic, Won't," shouted the chairman across the room. We wandered over to join the source of the cry, who had been sitting alone at a corner table looking very sorry for himself indeed. Won't is better known as Will Nott, SmallBluePlanet's veteran income fund guru. For the avoidance of doubt, he is very...

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