Leader: www.tenyearsafterthecrash.com

Ten years on from the dotcom crash and there are still some investors out there who have yet to fully recover from that - never mind the latest - crisis.

Meanwhile, the damage to the investment industry’s reputation was probably almost as severe and long lasting as the damage to many clients’ bottom lines. With the benefit of glorious full-colour hindsight, the incredible and unsustainable nature of some of the businesses that received huge sums via venture capital, or by hyped-up IPOs, are obvious to everyone. Clearly, consumers were never all going to switch to buying everything from the web overnight. Even some of the ideas that seem sensible, like TV through the web, have taken time to come to fruition and have been realised by fir...