Prando's Asset Management: Back in the game

A familiar face is back in business. But why? Why?

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There may be a new name over the door but otherwise it looks to be business as usual for the chairman of Prandeamus Asset Management.

"Do you know the single most important consequence of young Osborne's tinkerings with the UK's pension regime?" asked the chairman of the improbably-sized investment company Prandeamus Asset Management the moment I dropped round to see him in his brand new offices. "Well, hello and how lovely to see you too," I replied. "Of course I have missed you for however long it is you've been retired this time. "Still, since you ask, I should imagine it is the greater control, choice and flexibility that people now enjoy in relation to financing their retirement ...

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