JAMIE CARR: Don’t drink the liquid assets
While Advanced Health management could be forgiven for getting out a Quaich bowl or two of something strong and peaty to calm the nerves after its latest result
Don’t drink the liquid assets For anybody who fancies himself as a black-belt negotiator, it is important to flex the skills with a proper challenge. Wrangling over the finer details of Brexit with a bunch of recalcitrant Eurocrats springs to mind, and coaxing a reasoned debate out of US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would certainly merit a spot on the podium. But for real fireworks you need to stay close to home, and anybody who could persuade domestic management that it made sense to stick the life savings into Scotland’s finest export deserves a special mention.Shifting the pension into truly liquid assets has generally entailed buying investment-grade wine, and has always involved the risk that your balance sheet could be pillaged by a bunch of thirsty teenagers the moment your back is turned and the key to the cellar unearthed. But according to premier whisky consultants Rare Whisky 101, its Apex 1000 index — which tracks the price performance of th...
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