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How Finance Has Changed!

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We're going to reminisce about your past today and explore some of the lessons from working in finance. So what happened and where do we need to start?

When I came down from university, I got a job in a firm of stockbrokers. It was one of the large firms, had about 40 partners and 400 staff. Its primary business was for institutions, for pensioners funds, unit trusts, fund managers of all sorts.

One way or another, I concluded after about 18 months that this wasn't a life I wanted to pursue for various reasons. However, in the…

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