black tie

269 days ago

The Financial Services Industry celebrates diversity – where are the customers black tie awards ceremonies?

You want your broker to be good at his or her job and to be judged accordingly. You are so much of a bloody dinosaur. This is 2023 FFS. PIMFA the trade body for financial services has announced the short list for its 2023 Diversity & Inclusion Awards. You and I know that this bollocks adds to the cost base of member firms which you and I, the customer, ends up paying for. As for the black tie awards ceremony… in the end you know who is paying for that too, don’t you?

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3183 days ago

The 2015 AIM Awards October 8, ShareProphets translation Service

On October 8th 1300 men and women in black tie and pretty frocks will gather for the annual AIM awards dinner in London. Seats cost c£150 each but who cares, it is you dear mug punters who are paying. The website is a hoot.

Why are you paying? Nearly all the tables are booked by City advisors: PR flunkies, lawyers, brokers, nomads. They earn their cash for ramping shite companies on the AIM Casino and then helping them raise money from er…you, private investors. So you are paying for this celebration.  The website is a hoot. Here is the homepage script with our translation in bold:

Each year the AIM ‘club’ gathers to celebrate outstanding achievement on the world’s most successful growth market.

Each year 1300 crony capitalists get pissed and fill their bellies using cash ultimately leached from private investors.  The champagne comes

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3242 days ago

Prize Competition: AIM is 20, nominate the "lifetime value destroyer" on the Casino

A free meal for two at Free Speech & Liberty Pizza House in Clerkenwell is the prize in this week's contest. On the 19th the crony capitalists will be celeberating AIM's 20th birthday. How they will celebrate with black tie events, champagne, coke and hookers all paid for you.. the mug punters.

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