Prando's Asset Management - Game of Gnomes

The chairman warns: ‘Summer is coming’

Julian Marr
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"Why do you keep calling it 'Game of Thrones'?" sighed the chairman of the improbably-sized investment company Prandeamus Asset Management when I visited him last week. "I've told you, it's 'Game of Gnomes'.

"And frankly, bearing in mind it's my enormous television and my network of surveillance cameras hidden in assorted offices around Canary Wharf, the City of London and Whitehall, I get to choose the name." When the chairman told me he had become addicted to "this unmissable drama", I suppose I should not have been too surprised to find myself sitting in his office watching a recording from his Chairmovision™ files. "Of course you do," I said, holding up a placatory hand. "It's just that when you mentioned this saga about a vicious and bloody battle for world domination, I thought you wer...

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