The chairman is outraged to find the industry is packed with crooked independent financial advisers
"What do you think of financial journalism in the Sunday papers?" asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we shared a bottle of Outraged Hack at The Lavish Junket. "As that nice Mr Gandhi may once have said, I think it would be a good idea," I replied. "As it happens, I'm afraid I've stopped reading the Sunday papers all together – partly to do my bit for the environment and save a baby tree a week. And from a financial services point of view, I find it quite depressing to be continually reminded just what a bunch of crooks I mix with on a dai...
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