Women are natural housekeepers and, as such, the City is an excellent theatre for our innate
talents. Every time we stock up our shelves with tins or bottle jam in the autumn we are
responding to an ancient impulse to hedge bets against the coming winter. Jam-making is
basically a kind of risk management and managing risk is what handling money is all about
(You, p. 46, Mail on Sunday, 2 March 1997; see Buchan, 1997, p. 73).