Joie de vivre
Despite being blighted by a flu acquired a week or so earlier at the Financial Services Council annual conference, Rollover manfully attended the Super Review Super Fund of the Year Awards in Melbourne, sponsored by that most Gallic of financial services houses, BNP Paribas Securities Services.
And the French influences seemed everywhere to be seen at Melbourne’s Langham Hotel from the Parisian scenes on assorted big video screens to a tres French accordion soundtrack not heard since Rollover stopped watching television episodes of Maigret.
But the French influences did not stop with the efforts of the BNP Paribas marketing team, mais non.
It just so happens that this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, barrister Noel Davis, accepted his award via video filmed in his chateau in the south of France.
Davis kept with the mood of the evening by ensuring that a bottle of red remained close at hand while he spoke to the camera. Truly a bon vivante.
AUTHOR
The Rollover
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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