Popular wisdom advises that you take a look at your retirement planning regularly to be sure everything is on-track for that fated day in the future when you turn in your final resignation and take your leave from the money-making world.

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Does that mean that successful hedge funds are fated to be short-lived and to remain (relatively) small?

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Mr Simon pointed out that India, once seen by Malthusians as a hopeless case, fated to be increasingly hungry, could now feed itself.

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