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...The exercise comes as the lender braces for a potential recession and another year of lacklustre M&A and capital markets activity....
...For those still at Goldman, bank president John Waldron is viewed as the leading candidate....
...The best bit of advice I ever received was from my bookkeeper, Reggie Waldron, when I first moved to New York. She advised me to “do what you can do and find others to do what you can’t”....
...“I’m dreading the conversations I’m going to have with my team,” said one seasoned Goldman banker in anticipation of the cuts....
...“I’m obsessed with pomegranates,” she tells me over lunch at her restaurant. “They’ve always forever been a part of my kitchen because I grew up with them.”...
...“We’re running the firm tighter and we’re preparing for a tougher environment,” Goldman’s president John Waldron warned at a conference this month. “Activity levels are definitely more muted.”...
...Barclays has named Dan Grabos as co-head of Americas M&A, alongside Larry Hamdan, in New York. He will keep his current role as co-head of industrials M&A....
...So B&M, which also reports on Wednesday, should be lifted by shoppers trading down....
...The way things are going now, such a bounty might only be expected in the case of an M&A miracle....
...“I’m not talented, but I am visual. I think,” he says. Perhaps the greatest oddity is the recently arrived Peloton cycle. It sits by the window, looking forlorn....
...Excited though I am to see Mescal slathered in motor oil and wearing a white singlet, I’m also fascinated to see how he will interpret this icon of bravado. “I’m interested in the two extremes....
...Fred and Marcia Weisman, the “American Collectors” as rigid and grotesque as the totem pole in their Los Angeles sculpture garden, become giants looming above us: his clenched fist tight as his dark suit...
...Goldman’s Waldron said the group was actively looking for businesses that expanded its wealth management business’ digital capabilities. Habbel, of Bain, said: “We expect a lot of M&A.”...
...That focus on breeding champions — no doubt gleaned from her days advising some of France’s largest companies as an M&A banker at Lazard — paid off....
...Goldman’s chief administrative officer, Ericka Leslie, has emerged as a critical figure in the review under the direction of Goldman president John Waldron, multiple people briefed on the matter told the...
...M&A overload A consolidation wave has been making its way through asset management....
...On Thursday, Goldman Sachs president John Waldron took on the severe storms question without prodding when asked for his view of the macroeconomic backdrop....
...When I tell people that I’m going on holiday to Pembrokeshire, which I’ve been doing with my family for around 15 years, they tend to say, “Oh, St David’s, wonderful.”...
...“I’m going to try not to use any weather analogies,” quipped John Waldron, president of Goldman Sachs....
...Hi everyone, I’m Brooke Masters in New York and I’m filling in for Harriet Agnew again this week as she enjoys a well-deserved break....
...In the 1970s, chokers became a symbol of rebellion, co-opted by the punk movement, which favoured spiked leather dog collars, sometimes completed with leashes and S&M references....
...Some of Goldman’s kind of partner alumni network still refer to David and John Waldron — who’s Goldman’s, Goldman Sachs’s president, who’s also at Bear Stearns — as the guys from Bear....
...Stephen Millard: I’m not sure it will happen but a marked increase in public investment would be the key policy change that could do most to boost long-run UK growth....
...Citigroup has named Dhiren Shah as chair of global technology M&A. He joins in New York from Credit Suisse, where he was head of financial sponsors M&A....
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