"Shall we talk about corporate governance?" I asked the chairman of the improbably-sized investment company Prandeamus Asset Management when I dropped by to see him this week.
"Why not?" he sighed. "Everybody else seems to have an opinion on how I should run my company these days so why not you? Seriously - whatever happened to the good old days of ‘chairman knows best'?" "I'm not sure that was ever a thing," I said. "But, if it was, maybe people decided the old days weren't that good and the chairman probably didn't know best - present company accepted, obviously. So the peasants have been revolting, have they?" "Aren't they always?" the chairman sighed again. "But they do seem to have been particularly shouty this week. "I've lost count of the number of p...
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