Prando's Asset Management - Off the cuff

Mortifyingly, he had insisted we eat lunch in the window of a restaurant by Lloyd's of London and, having piled the table with more wine than even he could finish, was now waving and laughing at anyone he thought might work in insurance. "Is it the damage it risks doing to the wider advice profession in the eyes of the public?" I suggested. "It does rather feel as if we have gone back in time a few years - and that can't be good." "No it can't," the chairman agreed as he spotted a miserable-looking group of men walking past the window and started pretending to drink straight from a bottl...