Firstly, welcome back to friend of thewealthnet Tim Bailey at Cazenove Capital, who returned to the office this week having spent the summer recuperating from an encounter with an errant Porsche, as reported by Ian Orton.

Another near-disaster was recounted by our usually supercilious Freddie Pooter, who was pleading for forgiveness after he took an esteemed private banking recruiter’s family name “in Vane”, in Diary of a Private Banker...