Zeitgeist

• What makes the cultural fabric of a great financier: expert networker & social connector, zealous commerce enabler, saviour of the common good for society, something else?

• Will ESG save us from PFAS et cetera and other forever chemicals' version of a "mutually assured self-destruction" of the human race?

• Will "Artificial Intelligence" make all humans obsolete or only some, and if the latter, is the dignity of life alienable?

• How should one contemplate interest rate risk in a client's plans, and how might that affect or effect a financier's balance sheet?

• Must a merger be accretive to succeed?

• "Spaltmaß" and other cultural etiquette guides.