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The chairman explores some new ways of marketing the company

'I've had this splendid idea for a really topical press release,' said the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we drank our pints of Second Attempt at the bar of the Kane Mutiny. Maybe you know it ' it's a small place quite close to UBS. 'Let me guess,' I said. 'It will start 'Soccer fever is sweeping the globe and the world's spotlight is turning east towards Japan and South Korea.' It will then use this as a tenuous link to either SmallBlue Planet's views on the Far East or the prospects for its Japan, South Korea or, come to think of it, fo...

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