Is there anyone this guy won't shake hands with?
Camera shy he ain't. Where there is a camera, you will find Money Management editor Stuart Engel.
Camera shy he ain't. Where there is a camera, you will find Money Management editor Stuart Engel.
It doesn't matter the occasion, how stupid he looks or who he is with, he just needs to get in front of the lens.
Fortunately for Engel, the photographer left the Money Management Fund Manager of the Year charity ball just before midnight. But not before he had a chance to get his head in a photo with each of the 350 financial services party types who crowded into Melbourne's Crown Casino Ballroom.
Including Manfred Vickers (aka Campbell McComas), who thrilled the masses with anecdotes about the rough and tumble world of financial services in the old Dart. Apparently some in the audience believed Vickers really was Bankers Alma-nac Bonker of the Year for 1998 up until he removed the carpet from his head to display the naked noggin of Campbell McComas.
The turfing out of the gongs reached a frenzy when BT's Terry Power bagged the inaugural Deloittes lifetime achievement award. The excitement reached fever pitch when Chris Cuffe stepped up for the biggy on behalf of Colonial - the Fund Manager of the Year award.
Frenzy fever turned to night fever when Bobby Valentine hit the stage with his band of minstrels. Kevin "Zorba the Greek" Bailey set the dance floor ablaze with his uncanny mix of latin grooves and funky moves.
Bailey was joined on the blazing disco tiles by a bevy of the industry's groo-vers and shakers before they slunk off into the night in a haze of alcohol and cigarette smoke.
Unconfirmed reports have filtered back to the Money Management bunker that both the BT crowd and the Colonial First State troupe terrorised the drinking public of Melbourne with their own brand of late nigh revelry until 4.30 in the morn-ing.
Nonetheless Chris Cuffe was spotted at Tullamarine airport at 7am Friday morning fresh as a daisy. Amazing the healing powers of a Fund Manager of the Year gong.
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