A few years ago our firm held a conference  at which I introduced clients to one Alfred Etienne Watterton Gouws. That’s quite a big name for a little dog, you might say, for this is our family’s Bichon Frise.

I showed those present four pictures of Alfie taken at various significant moments. One was  in February 2018, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 1,000 points in a day. Another was after Donald Trump had declared a trade war. The third was when North Korea fired a missile over Japan. And the last was  after Markus Jooste resigned...