Stammer could think of no better example than an old paper $10 note, which he presented to His Lordship in a commemorative black slipcase. So what did Don like about the old tenner? “You might be too young to remember this,” Stammer told Unbalanced (we were flattered), “but before the polymer notes came in, Francis Greenway used to be on the $10 bill.” Now we all know that Francis Greenway was the convict who became one of Australia’s greatest architects, but it’s seldom remembered what crime he was transported for. “It was currency forgery,” Stammer delighted in telling a bemused Lord Brabourne.

“I believe Australia is the only nation to have ever immortalised someone committed of this crime by putting them on the currency itself.” Lord Brabourne, of course, was born on the fortunate side of that class system which Australians so enjoy subverting in Greenway-esque ways. But Don’s gift prompted a surprising revelation – his Lordship had a distant uncle transported to Norfolk Island, who was eventually hanged for murder in a case which inspired the first laws around reduced culpability due to insanity.

Lord Brabourne was quick to promise that homicidal tendencies don’t run in his family, which owns the 4000 acre Broadlands estate that was famously home to the Mountbattens. Indeed, the only thing to be murdered in His Lordship’s presence of late is the Praemium share price, but in this market we don’t think that’s a hanging offence. Mo’ hopers IFSA has put $100 behind this mo’. For the second year running, Harvey Kalman of Equity Trustees has grown a ‘tash to raise money for men’s depression and prostate cancer research in the global Movember movement. Last year he raised approximately $7000.

Now, one year, and a big downturn later, he has cracked the $5000 mark with the help of backers including the IFSA Economics Savings and Tax Board Committee. “I was the only one in the room doing Movember. And if they’re not going to do it, they have to support it,” he said. Kalman describes his handlebar mo’ as “a Chopper Read one”, while his family say he looks one of the ice road truckers, of TV fame. As Unbalanced went to press, Kalman was running strong in the Movember fundraising rankings at 17th place nationally and 34th internationally.

For a two-mo’ team, Harvey Kalman and fellow EQTer Boyd Peters are punching above their weight in the rankings, positioned 84th against teams with more mo’ power. There are a few other industry mo-bros out there. For instance Chris Briant and Ty Thurgood have been adding a touch of Magnum P.I to the Russell salesforce. The myth of diversification At a global research conference in Sydney last month, Sebastien Page of State Street Associates rather eloquently likened the financial engineering of the past decade to early years of the automotive industry: