The high-profile departure this week of a team of commodity traders from Barclays Capital to set up a hedge fund provides modest cause for celebration, as does the wider retreat from banks’ own-account trading prompted by America’s Dodd-Frank Act. For the hedge fund world is where such proprietary traders – a euphemism for speculators whose trading is unrelated to the needs of bank customers – surely belong.
巴克萊資本(Barclays Capital)的一個大宗商品交易員團隊本週高調離職，創立了一家對沖基金，這如同美國《多德-弗蘭克法案》(Dodd-Frank Act)促使銀行大幅削減自營賬戶交易規模一樣，也算是一件值得慶祝的事情。因爲自營交易員——這是對於其所從事的交易活動與銀行客戶需求毫不相關的投機者的委婉稱呼——確實屬於對沖基金世界。
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