Terrible thing, denial. As the investment banking industry mourns the sudden death of the Wall Street model, it is not surprising that many are locked in grief. But it is worrying that some are still stuck in denial about why it died and what it will mean for those left behind.
The financial markets remain engulfed in "fundamental disequilibrium" with the size, scale and prioritisation of remedial efforts still far from clear in governments' policy responses, according to a new report which hints that a "nuclear error" has occurred in the markets.
One of the two main fund managers at UK financier Sir Ronald Cohen’s real estate investment business, set up two years ago, has left the company in the wake of volatile markets that dragged the size of the group's flagship fund down by almost half last year.