CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Much to my surprise, I fitted in well at Liebermann Brothers Asset Management. I was from the wrong kind of background, but Americans don’t care about stuff like that. I was good at my job. They cared about that. And I was funny. A lot of my best successes at Liebermann Brothers were scored in the Bunch of Grapes round the corner from our European headquarters on Ironmonger Lane. Guys who ran portfolios worth millions of dollars were always thumping me on the back at the horseshoe bar and saying, “Christ, Bob, you’re so f*****g funny!”
One of my most notable successes in the Bunch of Grapes was Annabel, the younger sister of Jeremy Richardson, a rising star in the European equities team. She often used to come over from her job in Mayfair to join us for a drink on Frid
