It isn’t just old soldiers that fade away instead of dying. Private banking diarists or, to be more specific Freddie Pooter, thewealthnet’s long serving diarist, do so too.

Regular readers will recall that back on 1 July Freddie announced he was taking a well-earned summer break.

The long extended break must have been really efficacious because two months later Freddie informed us that he was closing his diary for good.

The reality was that life had become ...