First The Louvre; now how to spot a heist on the ASX. Credit: File The ladder. The smashed window. The stolen jewels. Dollar Bill expected to see a Bond villain, not a few men dressed in high-viz scooting past outside the famous Louvre Museum in Paris with backpacks stuffed full of priceless treasures. Yet there it was: four thieves, an electrically powered ladder on a truck, through a second-floor window into the Apollo Gallery and out again. It was all done in seven minutes

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I first came across the name Claude de Bernales when I saw it on an old share certificate. It had his actual signature on it and was one...