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GOSLING'S GROUSE

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"What is FundsNetwork?' my usually intelligent neighbour asked. "Well it is Fidelity, that big American investment group," I replied.

He just shrugged his shoulders as a sign of non-recognition. I was slightly incredulous as he is a bright bloke, but as he was “incandescent with rage” (his words) at the time, I did not feel like chastising him for not knowing what FundsNetwork is. He was angry because he had just come out of his local Halifax to do the 2010/2011 Isa for himself and his wife and they had messed it up. So, I helpfully suggested FundsNetwork and a cup of coffee. “It is a great big online supermarket and you just go on and select the funds you are interested in and put them into your Isa,” I explaine...

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