Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login It seems appropriate that the first part of our interview with veteran fund manager Geoff Wilson takes place as he weaves through New York City on foot, looking for an Uber. Wilson remembers New York vividly, where he was sent as a 30-year-old broker from middle-class Melbourne, working in the city during the 1987 sharemarket crash.
After rubbing shoulders with the corporate giants of the time – John Elliott, Larry Adler and Robert Holmes à Court – he found himself thrust into the Wolf of Wall St culture. “It’s all true,” he admits. “If the world’s a zoo, then New York’s the centre.
” “I remember I arrived on the Friday and went into the office. Someone had ordered a dozen bottles of Moet. We were all drinking Moet.
I thought, wow, this is extreme,” Wilson recalls. Jennifer Westacott, Geoff Wilson and Philip Lowe in Sydney this month for the Future Generation AGMs. Photo: Janie Barrett Wilson has been in New York catching up with billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, and is running late for our call after sharing a drink with a 71-year-old former broker, reminiscing about the old days.
“We hit the ’30s but this was an hour and a half into it, I said, ‘Look, I’ve actually got to go’. I told him, I’ll be back in September. You know what it’s like, very few guys love it.
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