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...tales from the poet's short life, the odd misty-eye and, of course, haggis. "It's not just a night anymore, or even a week, it's a whole bloody month!" Tait complains, again unconvincingly, as he raises his glass for yet another toast. The former Morgan Stanley banker has taken well to his new line of work - last year Tait attended 11 Burns Suppers stretching into February. It's early January when TIME donned the de rigueur kilt to join him as a Burns Supper guest at London's illustrious private Caledonian Club. "A little island of Scotland...
...After all, it is a myth that you must concentrate in economics to become an investment banker. It is a myth that you have to concentrate in a science to gain admission to medical school. It is a myth that you have to concentrate in government or social studies to get into law school. And the greatest myth of all is that in order to be financially successful and personally fulfilled you must become an investment banker, a doctor, or a lawyer...
...companies in need of capital are courting investments from oil- and gas-rich states such as Abu Dhabi and Russia as well as from rising economies like China, which recently formed a $200billion SWF to help the government invest its burgeoning foreign exchange reserves. SWFs, says a senior banker at JPMorgan Chase, "are the new It girl of global finance. Everyone wants a piece of them...
...characters walk—it all reflects every detail of some stereotype or another, some character who is a caricature of him- or herself. At the drop of a hat Sun is a slouchy, mouthing-off teenager named Jerome, and one second later she is meek, investment-banker-turned-educator Ms. Tam, trying vainly to convince Jerome to come to a 41-minute class less than 20 minutes late...
...Young Lions program at the New York Public Library, in the Crimson Key Society, and works to improve advising in the Government department. Though he’s accepted an offer at J.P. Morgan, he insists he “knows the trajectory of a traditional investment banker,” and is convinced it will not make use of the skills he sees growing in his future. Instead, he hopes one day to pursue a career in film. The people who know Brown best credit him for making a conscious effort to live a well-balanced social life...