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.
巴克莱资本(Barclays Capital)的一个大宗商品交易员团队本周高调离职，创立了一家对冲基金，这如同美国《多德-弗兰克法案》(Dodd-Frank Act)促使银行大幅削减自营账户交易规模一样，也算是一件值得庆祝的事情。因为自营交易员——这是对于其所从事的交易活动与银行客户需求毫不相关的投机者的委婉称呼——确实属于对冲基金世界。
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