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Friday 11th of February 2011
I had a little chuckle the other day. When I was in Auckland I thought it would be useful to catch up with Naomi Ballantyne and her team at Partners Life (sometimes cheekily referred to as Sovereign Mark III) to see what was happening.
The address was in Takapuna on the North Shore and it seemed (for a country lad like me) that this was near where Sovereign used to be.
Well I was more correc...
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