Simon Evan-Cook: Flat, innit?

Of the hundreds of meetings I have attended over the past 10 years, most are lost in the mistier recesses of my memory - but some stick out. One is a meeting I attended back in 2009 in the aftermath of the financial crisis. I remember it for two reasons. First, it was billed as a gathering of the great and the good of the fund-managing and fund-buying worlds - and yet I was there too. I had only been doing the job for a couple of years, so Lord knows how I got to be sat round that particular table. Somebody important must have dropped out. And then their replacement dropped out. And t...