Franklin Templeton’s European managing director Jamie Hammond owns a Ducati Diavel motorbike, described by its makers as an irresistible 162 horsepower adrenaline rush with an estimated top speed of 155mph: “It goes from nought to 60 in 2.6 seconds. Takes bends like no other. You feel at one with the road.”

Franklin is powered by a big cash pile and, with experienced drivers like Hammond at the wheel and takes the recessionary bends rather well.