IN MEMORIAM: fresh horizontalisations

• 18th January 2010: Munich police stated on this date that they had found the body of a missing private equity manager, Dirk Poschinger von Camphausen, employed with EQT Partners, Germany. The 36-year-old former Morgan Stanley employee was reported missing by his wife on 14th January. According to the Munich newspaper Abendzeitung, police have made three arrests in connection with this case. The financier was planning to move to the United States.

• 24th January 2010: Herman Rockefeller 'disappeared' on this date after leaving Melbourne Airport. His abandoned car was found about 75 miles from the city by police. Rockefeller ran Brierly Investments, subsequently (or a.k.a.) BIL International Limited. It is not yet known whether he is dead, or when he has 'disappeared' with the funds controlled by that entity.

• 26th January 2010: Markus Reinhardt, the Chief Security Officer for the World Economic Forum, was found dead in his hotel room on this date. Reinhardt was previously, for 26 years, in charge of the Grison Canton's police service. Sources at Davos said that the operative 'committed suicide'.