We were kind of hoping the Luminis Partners crew would celebrate the business's first birthday by buying a solid gold ping-pong table.

Instead, Ron Malek, Simon Mordant, Peter Brownie and Jamie Garis committed $1 million to a scholarship program at the UNSW Business School (Malek's alma mater), which includes an international exchange at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Mordant's alma mater).