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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...
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 [[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”.


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