Buybacks mostly help staff who have left and are still existing...

Buybacks mostly help staff who have left and are still existing shareholders though! Platinum staff were never that well paid anyway, that's why I never worked there ;-)

Staff are really a fund management companies best asset. Whatever they do they need to keep them happy, or the last one left can switch the lights out.

There's not a single good initiative in the presentation to enhance growth. That's their main trouble. Investors have left because the funds management industry has changed, and they don't have a plethora of good ideas on how to get them back. Now the boss is leaving also, happy days.