This memoir tracks how George became involved in an area of business that grew from one of several million pounds to one of many billions. He observes with some humour how life was, and how it changed in his working years, both inside and outside his office.

George was an ideas man, creating and developing investment products and marketing ideas that were literally ahead of their time. Many of them are now widely available. When they were new, they attracted press headlines. ‘Stirs up a Hornet’s Nest,’ said the Financial Times about an innovative way to remunerate stockbrokers in the 1970s.

He describes businesses and people he encountered in most of the eleven countries in Europe, two Scandinavian, seven Middle Eastern, and three in South-East Asia, as well as the United States, where he operated before becoming an expatriate, returning to the UK for a period of self-employment before his final employed appointment.

Old customs and traditions became disguised by modern technology, but the creative flow kept coming right to the end of an inventive, absorbing, and socially beneficial career.