Suits & Sayings: Estate Planning

When the world’s largest money manager meets the country’s top suit for a morning coffee, what do they discuss? Trump and tariffs may have set the tone for the tete-a-tete, but then far more existential issues took centre stage. Turns out the septuagenarian gent, a Wall Street wiz in town recently to mark his firm’s milestone, was finding it hard to finalise the fleet of cars for his 2,500-acre estate that came with an £80 million price tag three years ago. After test drives and reviews, he’d settled for a particular SUV that his staff could use at the expansive property. A sensible choice but the only catch—there’s a long wait list. We don’t know if the corporate boss intervened, but we’re glad to know even multibillionaires deal with car queue issues.

(For more on our weekly roundup of wackiest whispers and murmurs in corporate corridors & policy parlours, pick up today's edition of The Economic Times newspaper)