Thursday 24 August 2017

Andrea Casulli has got a new job at Brevan Howard Asset Management ...

Well, well ... / Or so they. 'What? Who say?' They say. 'Who, boss?!' Those people, Voice. 'What fucking people, boss?!' The people who know what's happening in finance these days. Me? I know NOTHING. I only know what they tell me. 'But that ain't nothing, man.' Ha! Matter of opinion ...

Yeah, yeah ... Andrea Casulli. He was at Goldman Sachs, you know? [He was a senior fixed income specialist - if you like that sort of detail, dear reader(s). I'm sure you do. Christ!] 'Wow, man! / Why does he want to work for Brevan Howard then?' He wants a new challenge. Or so they say.

Okay, okay. Let's take a look at Andrea's LinkedIn profile. 'He hasn't updated it!' No. He better sort it out. It's unprofessional to have a LinkedIn profile that isn't up to date. 'It's sloppy. God knows what his clients think.' Don't be too hard on him, Voice. He probably hasn't had the time. But if I know Andrea, he'll get it sorted pretty quickly now. 'Do you know Andrea?' Never heard of him. 'Oh. Close friend, then.' Yeah. Like everyone else ...

So, uh ... Managing Director - IRP Trading at Goldman, and Managing Director - Head of Linear Rates (G10 and Emerging Markets EMEA), UBS Legacy at UBS, and Executive Director, Euro Govies & Inflation Products at Lehman Brothers, and ... Analyst, Interest Rate Derivatives and Bonds at ... [drum roll] ... Goldman Sachs! 'Twice! What happens if he goes back to Goldman for a third time?' He's there for life. I mean, that's their rule.

...

And my rule is ... to have a rest from finance, after four paragraphs. I'll be doing a conceptual later, No. 539.

So ... music? What am I listening to? I had Squeeze and R.E.M. on earlier, but now I'm listening to Donovan, what I reckon are his three best songs -

Sunshine Superman
Mellow Yellow
Hurdy Gurdy Man

Three pop classics!

And an honourable mention to Atlantis. Shine box time!

Oh, by the way, when I visit St Ives, I always see the pillbox [near the golf course, Porth Kidney] that Donovan slept in one summer in the early Sixties, before he became famous. I mean, he said he slept in a pillbox, and that's the only one in the area. As far as I know, like. Oh, never mind. It's not actually important.

Laters.