Does the unhappy history of Dillon Read Capital Management, the in-house, start-up hedge fund business into which UBS transferred 150 of its best proprietary traders in 2005 only to close it down at the start of May, provide any useful lessons to the rest of the investment banking industry?
Perhaps it is too odd an episode for that. The most obvious lesson, surely, is that proprietary traders are the key building block on which any securities business rests.
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