PIMS Blog- Message in a Bottle?

Jon Mackintosh, partner at Solus, provides his thoughts on this year's PIMS conference, direct form the middle of the Channel

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et in arcadia ego? So it would appear. We boarded the good ship Arcadia at tea time yesterday (Wednesday.) We set sail at 8, having allowed two land-lubbers to escape: the ubiquitous Justin Urquhart Stewart and Daniel Hannan, having enlightened us with their thoughts on Britain's great future.

As a newcomer to PIMS it all seems quite weird - here we are on a huge P&O cruise ship, setting sail into the Solent where it will anchor up off the coast of Guernsey so that we "suppliers" (purveyors of fund management products) have a captive audience of "delegates" (IFAs). The tricky choice facing delegates is whether to spend three days listening to our sales pitch or swim for shore. PIMS had gained itself a reputation in recent years as a bit of a booze-cruise. So far we have seen little sign of this, with a packed schedule of high quality meetings. We began with a series of 5-mi...

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