It was never a best seller, if it was ever sold at all.

Nonetheless, The Guide To Private Banking, a slim volume produced by the then Schroders Private Bank in the early noughties as a piece of marketing literature to announce its presence in the UK wealth management sector, had a very impressive roster of authors. Most of these worked for the firm and went on to greater things.

Pride of place probably goes to Andrew Sykes, Schroders Private Bank’s chairman. Mr Sykes, who had spent nearly a quarter of a century at Schroders occupying a number of senior positions in the process, contributed a piece called 'The...