While most wait for next month to see how the financial markets settle, if they ever will, we are waiting for a different reason. We want to know which senior structured products banker will be profiled by SRP.com in its monthly web-based magazine. Why are we interested – other than wanting to have a healthy knowledge of the competition? It’s the profile page that we want to see and the reason is that the online magazine has developed an unerring kiss of death when it comes to its choices. Last month in Structured Products magazine we wrote about the departure of Giles Rothwell, who left JP Morgan’s London offices merely weeks after he was profiled by SRP.com.
As of this Monday, we have a new story about a senior SP banker leaving his post, with Adam Habib leaving Lehman Brothers. Eerily, the February issue of SRP.com profiled Adam Habib.
It may work to be profiled in a magazine. You get publicity and all the rewards that may come with that. You just may not have a job.