Firstly, I know it wasn’t your fault personally, LB was a vast organisation, and we’ve seen that size is not the same as strength. Your CV is not poisoned by these events, and after you’ve allowed a short pause to get your head back together, move forward, because if you don’t then you really will be lost. I’m old enough to have been through bad times before, and the recurrent... Read more
By Dominic Connor 18 Sep 2008 - 24 comments
As a headhunter, I am a parasite who will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes. I know this to be true, since Geraint Anderson, the former Dresdner analyst now known to be City Boy, says so. It's the latest of many attacks upon my profession. Are we really that bad? Yes. How do I know? Well, at the Global Derivatives & Risk Management conference in Paris, our... Read more
By Dominic Connor 03 Jul 2008 - 117 comments