Sir Humphrey

Wanted: a Sir Humphrey for funds to hide behind

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Key skills required:

— Ability to move head vertically rather than horizontally when asked to promote anything desired by the fund management companies who pay your salary

— Ability to confuse fact with fiction via misleading random statistics (a mathematics skill would be helpful here)

— Ability to pull wool over the regulators’ eyes while maintaining a straight, poker-like face

— Ability to come up with new reasons à la Humphrey from Yes Minister, as to why any progressive change that might help the consumer is currently unworkable.