Sergio Ermotti Quotes

We know what we are. Our business is originating, distributing, and managing capital for individuals and institutions.

I hated being a junior investment banker. I loved the research business, the wealth management business.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.

Somebody needs to position you and introduce you, but after that, most of the bankers get represented with their large clients; mostly investors are their long-term clients and an investee is a short term client.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

In banking, it was my responsibility to deliver investment opportunities and solutions to hedge fund clients, and at Bloomberg, it's my job to break down news that matters to our viewers and readers.

I founded SkyBridge - an alternative investment management company focused on seeding and partnering with emerging managers and mentoring Wall Street's next generation of Wall Street's entrepreneurs - in 2005.

Wealth management businesses are capital light businesses.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

Votorantim is attentive to opportunities that arise in both domestic and international markets to expand its businesses.

Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.

Blackstone is a major client of many of the largest banks around the world.

I'm very smart, and I have a great team of people around me investing my money. I'm not buying gold - yet.

I had thought of joining my dad in his stock broking business in Delhi.

I'm not looking for hobbies, I'm looking for investments.

We are not only one of the largest investment firms but also one of the best performing.

I graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and founded my investment company in 1997, thus starting my professional investment career.