Graham Bentley: Humble pie on the menu at the IA dinner?

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Graham Bentley ponders on the issues that could dominate after dinner conversation at the annual Investment Association event...

The Investment Association dinner takes place shortly, and my dinner suit isn't the only item taken to the cleaners over recent weeks. Given that event has - for 30 years - been my annual precursor to Guy Fawkes' night, the metaphorical casting of Daniel Godfrey onto the fund management industry's bonfire is ironically timed. The pre-dinner speech (if indeed there is one) will no doubt give reassurance that the IA is back "on programme", keen to better represent its members' interests. By implication it is "doing a Pontius Pilate" when it comes to end investors, opining that it sho...

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