Comment: DB funds have turned into something they were never meant to be

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I had the good fortune to be talking to my friend Con Keating, of BrightonRock fame, this week.

Con mentioned he was writing something about how the problem with the banks was they were not really banks anymore. Instead they were huge risk management operations attached to proprietary trading...

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