Shane Ross: If you were looking for better returns on your savings, would you really invest in Simon Harris?

As a young stock­broker back in the late 1970s, one of my first tasks was to disturb a few blissfully happy people and to make them utterly miserable. I was required to head out into the jungle, hunt down contented middle-class citizens with savings in the bank and persuade them that there were bonanzas waiting in the stock market.