13 SEPTEMBER 1986, Page 25

Short-term view AMERICAN broker recruiting in the City: `The package

is in six figures but we expect performance. It's a twelve-hour day, to cover all the markets, and you must not live more than half an hour from work. Vacations? It'll be busy, but we can find you two weeks. What's that? You say in five years you'd be dead? Don't worry, that's OK, we'd be needing some new people then.'