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Will Murray success at Wimbledon be RBS’s best return?
Royal Bank of Scotland is not best known for backing winners.
So the Scottish bank must be savouring Andy Murray's run at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
World number three Murray is one of the "sports personalities of present and past" sponsored by RBS during the heady days of Sir Fred Goodwin.
Murray must count as one of Sir Fred's more inspired investments. Murray's play has literally gone from strength to strength -- all the time with the RBS logo emblazoned on his shirt sleeve.
Stephen Hester, Goodwin's successor as chief executive of RBS, must be hoping Murray maintains his winning streak and goes all the way to the Wimbledon men's final.
Is RBS chief Stephen Hester worth £9.6m?
As chief executive for a company that is 70 percent owned by the government, a 9.6 million pounds pay package is quite a tidy sum.
It is a package that makes Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester almost as well as paid as the Real Madrid-bound Cristiano Ronaldo.
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