Prando's Asset Management - One possible moment

The chairman is convinced someone is following him

Julian Marr
clock • 3 min read

"Is it possible that Ros Altmann could be stalking me?" asked the chairman of the improbably-sized investment company Prandeamus Asset Management when I dropped by to see him this week.

"It's possible," I conceded. "After all, she does have more time on her hands these days. It's just I'd have thought she'd have found a more productive use for it." "Me too," the chairman agreed. "And yet, wherever I've gone the last few weeks, I haven't stopped seeing her face. So, rationally speaking, what other explanation could there be?" "Rationally speaking?" I checked. "Aside, that is, from your conclusion the former pensions minister and current member of the House of Lords has developed, for reasons yet to be fathomed, some kind of fixation on you? "Outlandish as it may seem,...

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