... I remember Barings and James Capel and WICO and BZW and Warburgs and Hoare Govett and Vickers da Costa
... I remember what people do when E F Hutton speaks, and who measures success one investor at a time
... I remember the sound of a stock chart being printed on a dot matrix printer
... I remember the IBM PC-XT (and its super fast 8088 processor) which we shared at work
... I remember searching for "sex" on Altavista
... I remember floppy disks (that really were floppy)
... I remember Bloomberg terminals with big ball keyboards (with Chiclet buttons)
... I once worked for Rowe and Pitman (or was it Rowak?)
... My first boss had been a partner at Phillips and Drew
... I remember Big Eight accounting houses
... I remember when Greed, for want of a better word, was good
... I used to think "who would read research from Goldman Sachs or Merrill Lynch in Asia?"
... I remember the first time Security Pacific started making Hoare Govett partners very very rich
... I remember that time when the KLSE traded more than the NYSE
... I remember Glass-Steagall
... I remember Pan-El
... I bought Aokam
... I broked to Scudder and Twentieth Century
... I remember horrible toilets on company visits in Shanghai... and holding on until back in your own hotel
... I remember small fish being dried in the sun along Boat Quay in Singapore
... I remember when every bank and broker had at least one junk available for booze cruises in Hong Kong
... I remember when Thailand was going to be the next Malaysia
... I remember Green Island Cement
... I remember ConsPlant
... I remember when Jardine Matheson had stock code 15
... I remember when First Pacific was definitely going to be the next hong
... I remember not being able to buy shares in Korea, Taiwan and India (and China) at all
... I remember Communist China
... I remember bloody coups and protests in Asia
... I remember watching the end of the Vietnam war on TV
... I remember asking somebody what "a hedge fund" was
... I remember TED Spreads under 300 points
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