Goslings Grouse

GOSLING'S GROUSE

Did you watch the three chancellors last week? If not, you didn't miss much and if you did you might be wondering why you bothered.

Integrity is a much-used word in this industry.

"I am making £28.50 from every £1 - this scheme has 50,000 people in it."

It is unofficial election time so I guess we are going to have to put up with a lot of old waffle about Gordon Brown being a bully (so what?), and the Conservatives suggesting they would like to give the private investor the opportunity to buy into the...

‘China via Bolton'. Congratulations to Fidelity for coming up with the wittiest headline for a while on an advert for a new fund launch.

"I give this portion of my estate as a thank-offering in the firm conviction that never again shall we have a chance of giving our country that form of help which is so vital at the present time" - Stanley Baldwin, first secretary to the Treasury, 1923....

Much is always made by asset management groups about the structure of their companies or the remuneration of the fund managers being ‘aligned' with their investors and shareholders.

There is a fit and proper test in football for anyone who wants to buy a football club, which is a joke, and, judging by recent conversations I have been having, the equivalent expression for our industry is sounding like an equal joke in some cases....

Fifteen years ago I did not look like this and I did not have this column - I was far too shy to have a picture of myself in the first issue - or in fact any issue until a few years ago. How times change.