Andrew Strauss, England's Ashes-winning captain, famously elected to play cricket rather than pursue a career in the City. Good choice. While Strauss and his teammates lapped up the plaudits of a grateful nation for their victory over Australia this week, contemporaries of his who went into investment banking were accused by the chairman of the Financial Services Authority, no less, of engaging in “socially useless” activities, such as derivatives trading.
衆所周知,爲英格蘭贏得灰燼杯(Ashes)的板球隊隊長安德魯•斯特勞斯(Andrew Strauss)選擇了打板球,而不是供職於倫敦金融城(City)。選得好。斯特勞斯及其隊友上週戰勝了澳洲隊,在滿懷感激之情的全國人民爲他們的勝利而喝彩時,他進入投行業的同齡人卻受到了英國金融服務管理局(FSA)毫不遜色的批評,指責他們從事「於社會無益」的活動,例如衍生品交易。