Prando's Asset Management - Responsible thinking

The chairman gets excited about swapping management tips with the regulator

Julian Marr
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"Are you up for chatting through the FCA's consultation paper?" I asked the chairman of the improbably-sized investment company Prandeamus Asset Management when I dropped by to see him this week.

"Which one?" he sighed, peering at me from behind a heap of paper on his desk. "Oh come on," I laughed. "I know they've been busy down at Canary Wharf but it's not that bad. "And anyway, you really don't have to print out every single consultation paper the regulator sends you - these days there are things called websites, you know." "Oh, I know all right," the chairman sighed again. "But the small paper mountain you see before you is only an indirect result of the FCA's recent burst of productivity. You see, I made the mistake of asking for a briefing note on the main points." "Oh yo...

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