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Wall Street's Endangered Species: The Ivy League Jock

Former colleague athletes, whose natural career path led to them to trading floors of Wall Street are encouraging their alma mater to not follow in their footsteps - "don't do it - you'll be on the wrong side of Moores Law".

If college athletes asked him for advice in pursuing a career on the trading floor, he said, his message would be a simple one. Don’t. Two years ago, after nearly a decade working as an equity salesman, Mr. Savini left for 303 Capital Markets, a boutique investment-banking firm. “The business is changing,” he said. “It’s all going electronic.” “These guys are on the wrong side of Moore’s Law,” said Rett Wallace, a former investment banker, referring to the axiom on the exponential growth of computing power. “When Airbnb can handle two million unique properties at once, and Uber can manage more than a million drivers around the world in real time, are we really saying that a few hundred thousand bond issues can’t be traded by computer?”

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wall street, fintech, capital markets