Obsequitariat

The 99% who are in it for the ride, the crumbs and the crusts of bread that fall from the tables of the fortunate. They who will swoon at an [ultra-high net worth wealth manager’s faultlessly woke social media output {{{2}}}] — topics, in order, including financial literacy for women, black professional social networking, net zero carbon emissions, investment approaches to give the world’s women financial independence, the female workforce after COVID, a white man speaking about gender diversity in leadership, sustainable and impact investing, Black History Month, the financial life-cycle of a woman, more about gender diversity, more about recruitment diversity — fairly quickly it goes on a loop.

Now all of these are laudable topics in and of themselves, and doubtless is is true that the financial services industry has badly failed each of these constituencies, along with many others which are not quite so presently in vogue. Our point here is not to throw shade on these causes and the difficult issues they present, but to ask — in a year that less obsequious commentators were predicting would be the most crisis-ridden in the institution’s history , including espoionate