Since I began writing my column for Puck, I’ve been inundated with feedback about Wall Street’s biggest characters and concerns. I’ll be engaging with some of those questions here—in addition to a few observations of my own.
State Street Global Advisors, a subsidiary of the State Street Corporation, has been making big M&A moves to bulk up its business and is reportedly eyeing an acquisition of Invesco, another big investment manager. What do you make of the Boston brahmins’ long-term ambitions to compete with the biggest Wall Street firms? A possible tie-up with UBS fell apart last year, but Cyrus Taraporevala, the C.E.O. of State Street Global Advisors, seems undaunted.
