Barking up the wrong alley

8 May 2015

| By Rollover |

Conferences such as CMSF tend to inevitably attract their share of engenues.

Having grown up in the provinces, Rollover is only too ready to accept that not everyone has viewed life's rich tapestry in quite the same detail as Rollover has himself.

However your world weary correspondent was nonetheless surprised to hear a certain superannuation industry BDM expressing a desire to sample the delights of the Gold Coast's Hooker Boulevard.

Rollover made a half-hearted attempt to explain that the thoroughfare in question might fall short of the young chap's expectations, but then fell silent believing that some people are ultimately best taught by experience.

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Meeting the young fellow the next morning, Rollover discovered that he got stuck in Bourbon Street and never made it to the boulevard in question.

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Rollover is a jaded hack who joined the staff of Super Review nearly two decades’ ago and never managed to summon the energy to leave. Known throughout the superannuation industry as a power-luncher and gossip, Rollover spends his time humouring fund managers, eavesdropping at conferences, dozing through briefings and looking for his next free meal.

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