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Heralding the era of the freelance fund manager

Asset management firms cram their expensive buildings with expensive staff. If they got rid of both, everyone would be better off – even the staff

Heralding the era of the freelance fund manager
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As a callow and innocent youth, I once asked the chief executive of a large asset management firm, why he liked fund management so much. He said: “Son, it’s inside work with no heavy lifting.”

Self-deprecation doesn't come better than that. Fund management is one of the greatest businesses you can be in. In a world where the word "banker" is spat out as a casual insult and has become a byword for usury and excess, fund management has gone largely unmaligned.

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