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?I’m still relatively young. You only get one crack at life and I want to experience as much as possible in my career.? |
Senior bankers who quit their jobs on the pretext of pursuing new interests often quickly emerge in a similar role. Not so Manfred Schepers, who left UBS last June after 17 years. He said he was leaving to consider new banking roles but that his first priority was a good break. He meant it.
Last autumn, instead of managing hundreds of people as vice-chairman of European fixed income, rates and currency at UBS, he was crewing on the 60-foot racing yacht Spirit, crossing the Atlantic from Gran Canaria to St Lucia in the ARC race.
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