Prando's Asset Management - Hush hush

The chairman knows the fundamental rule of ‘off the record'

Julian Marr
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"How on earth did you get in here?" asked the chairman of the improbably-sized investment company Prandeamus Asset Management when I dropped by to see him this week. "I left strict instructions you weren't to be let in the building."

"And how lovely to see you too," I greeted him back. "Apparently your strict instructions did not register either with security or your two directors of first impressions who just waved me through. "Anyway - glossing swiftly over how, if you did not want me to turn up today, you only had to say - may I ask what I have done to incur your displeasure?" "Oh, it's not you specifically," sighed the chairman, waving me to a chair. "It's just my PR people told me to be very careful about what I say to journalists in the light of that Supreme Court ruling on off-the-record briefings." "The on...

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