There are some distinguished women-and-men partnerships in our jolly old business. We can think of Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, with her net worth of £12 billion due to beer money inheritance. Husband is Michel de Carvalho, formerly a financier and director of Citigroup now at Capital Generation Partners, whom she met on a ski holiday in St. Moritz.

And of course, no list would be complete without the Odeys. Crispin founded Odey Asset Management, later helped by partner Nichola Pease whose father, Sir Richard Pease, is a member of the distinguished Barclays families. Pease in our time, as some will plea to the Qatar trial...