City And Suburban
The cart gets in front of the horse and the bulls are ahead of them both CHRISTOPHER FILDES H ear what they say and then watch what they do. As the partners in Goldman Sachs......
What Makes Goldman Tick
I CAN only guess which way Mr Dudley voted in the Palisades Conference Centre, where he and his partners opted to bring Goldman Sachs to market. The case against must have......
Spy Story
MY SAINTED predecessor, Nicholas Dav- enport, was caught up in a City tragedy, now retold as a spy story. One summer morning in 1930, the broker Sidney Russell Cooke was found......
The Brown-eyed Boy
THE Davenport version is simpler and sad- der. Cooke, he says, was introduced to the senior partner on the Stock Exchange floor: `As he was a good-looking young man, with dark......
No More Money, Ma'am
AT LEAST one Rowe & Pitman client from the old days is still going strong. Hugo Pitman was a trustee of the Queen Moth- er's marriage settlement. This was modestly valued, by......
Match Of The Date
MY SCHEME for declaring this column a World-Cup-free zone was shelved when I drew Tunisia in the office sweep. These plucky little date-pickers, I reckoned, could go all the......