TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12
Ah, To Be Young, Rich...And Trading

Albert Einstein believed a person who hadn't made a great contribution to science before hitting 30 was unlikely to do so. That same harsh law may also apply to trading floors. According to one London-based hedge fund that monitors these things closely, the most successful ideas usually come from traders in their late twenties. Was Société Générale's real problem not that Jérôme Kerviel was accumulating cruddy positions, but that at 31, he was over the hill? A far-fetched proposition perhaps, but one the FT sees as worthy of a closer examination.

February 2008

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