Over the years, I have developed my own yardstick of financial excess.
I am a fan of any bank or asset manager that does away with glitz and glamour, boasting a reception area only one step up from a Regus business centre. Most investment banks, by contrast, feature walls of TV monitors blaring out subliminal messages suggesting trading on the next new idea, the next tick up or down is good...
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