From bad, to worse, to worser. Rob Shand gave what stands so far as 2018's train smash interview on Monday, the young chief executive of Blue Sky Alternative Investments presumably a classmate of David Warner's at the Don Burke School of Media Training.

Shand appointed Alan Kohler as his interrogator, hoping – we imagine – that years of appearance fees at events like Blue Sky's annual investor day, and advertising dollars on Kohler's Eureka Report and The Constant Investor platforms would earn the Brisbane boy gentle questioning. "I've been a supporter of Blue Sky over the years, going back some way, to when Mark Sowerby started the business," Alan disclaimed. "I thought it was a terrific vehicle for investors."