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{{image|Dandelion girl|jpg|The [[ultimate client]]’s granddaughter in a meadow, yesterday.}} | |||
}}The [[ultimate client]] himself is probably some benign, well-meaning, atavistic pensioner with few expectations beyond seeing out his autumnal years dandling a grand-daughter on his knee, and watching her blow dandelion fronds around a meadow bathed in golden light. | |||
To this unitary goal he has ploughed the meagre returns of a lifetime’s manual work, spent down a pit or something, via diverse routes (stewarded by personal [[investment adviser|investment advisors]] who signed him up by reading a lengthy [[disclaimer]] from a [[playbook]]) into ISAs, retirement schemes, life [[insurance]] policies, and [[investment fund]]s, each of whose [[asset managers]] outsource their trading functions to third party [[dealing desks]], who [[hedge]] their actuarial [[delta]] with units in [[fund of hedge fund]]s whose managers in turn invest in dynamic portfolios of ''actual'' [[hedge funds]], who invest the proceeds [[Stock loan|borrowing]] securities to [[sell short]] on margin, pledging as they do the collateral to their [[prime broker]]s, who upgrade it by using it as [[collateral]] for high-credit quality bonds lent by [[agent lenders]] on behalf of the — ahh — pensioners for whom they hold those assets... | |||
The ''real'' ultimate client is one who occupies the [[ultra-high net worth]] sector — this is a bland euphemism for the super-rich — the Saudi royals, South American dictators, the playboy offspring of a Russian oligarch who now loaf around Monaco hanging around with Swiss financial advisors who are pleased to pitch them “investment ideas” — people who have got ''so much money'' they don’t notice that their advisors relieve them of it by the millions each year, because — no-one misses a million here or there: it’s all just [[basis point]]s, you know? | |||
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*[[Customer]] | |||
*[[Look, I tried]] | *[[Look, I tried]] | ||
*[[Client]] | *[[Client]] | ||
*[[Intermediary]] | *[[Intermediary]] |