Health and safety is dogged with bad press.
Most fund managers are anonymous characters who between them control assets worth hundreds of billions of pounds. They also take decisions capable of changing the fortunes of both client investors and those of the organisations in which they invest.
The concept of making anything other than very short-term new year resolutions has never appealed. This has nothing to do with a lack of willpower: around twenty five years ago, I went from being a 30-a-day smoker to zero in one day and haven’t had a cigarette (or a craving for one) since.
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