Summit Notebook
Exclusive outtakes from industry leaders
Private bankers chanting new mantra
Private bankers still getting their ears bashed from clients enraged about massive portfolio losses now are chanting a new mantra.
Murmur along with me, those seeking inner peace and appeased clients: the word is “holistic”.
Three years ago, before Lehman and Madoff shattered clients’ confidence, the soothing formula might have been “absolute returns” or “structured products”. No longer.
Bankers shooting French cuffs in Super 180 suits and obsessed with spread sheets now are seizing on a word redolent of green tea, acupuncture, crystals and the New Age.
from Global Investing:
Reuters Funds Summit: Madoff, the silent presence
Master-fraudster Bernie Madoff is the invisible guest at an annual fund fest in Luxembourg, the European capital for fund administration.
Even though the former Nasdaq chairman is under arrest thousands of miles away from this discreet 
financial centre nestled between Belgium, France and Germany, his presence was omnipresent. Fund managers just can't stop mentioning him.
