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Barnett Waddingham Cocktail Party 2002
Adam Walker reports on Barnett Waddingham's Cocktail Party.
Once again ignoring the risks posed by the scope for jokes inherent in juxtaposing clients, BW staff and the world's fauna (remember the eighth annual BW party at the London Aquarium?), Barnett Waddingham's thirteenth annual cocktail party took place on 9 July 2002 at the Natural History Museum.
The party was held in the hall by the main entrance to the museum, in the shadow of the enormous dinosaur skeleton. As expected, this attracted considerable comment on the behemoth that is the UK pensions industry, the dying-out of defined benefit schemes, and a number of other unkind remarks on the age of certain particular party attendees and the apparent similarity in the brain-to-mass ratio of both the ancient lizards and the UK pensions legislators.
Huw Wynne-Griffith thanked everybody for helping to celebrate another year of Barnett Waddingham.
As usual, once the party itself had become extinct, it evolved into a more advanced species of celebration in a nearby South Kensington public house.
Adam Walker, August 2002.