Sceptics may have questioned warnings that the soaring cost of Professional Indemnity Insurance would put some advisory firms out of business. They may have to eat their words.

In 1981 two bored but ambitious accountants started a British investment business from a spare room. Today they are billionaires.

It is astonishing to think that investors who have been compensated by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme go on to lose some, or perhaps all, of their compensation money all over again with another dodgy firm.

The news this week that platform engine provider FNZ has been ordered by the competition watchdog to sell GBST was a bit of a shock.