Write-Offs: 03.11.13
$$$ You can still drink big sodas [NYP]
$$$Bank compensation up in 2012 despite cutback efforts [Reuters]
$$$Morgan Stanley Set to Name Kaminsky Brokerage Vice Chair [FBN]
$$$Mary Schapiro Is Nominated to G.E. Board [DealBook]
$$$ The life cycle of the investment banker [TED]
$$$City high-flier 'was called crazy Miss Cokehead by work bullies after she blew whistle on insider dealing' [DM]
$$$ Brookfield Investment Management is looking for a global infrastructure securities analyst in Chicago [DBCC]
$$$Europe trading tax would kill repo market -industry official [Reuters]
$$$SAC Capital Manager’s Tipper Deserves Prison, U.S. Says [Bloomberg]
$$$"Long term shareholders are well served by activism" [Aswath Damodaran]
$$$ "Callan hardly needs advice from me but I'll offer it anyway. She may want to consider that her lack of satisfaction with her life's direction is not a product of the choices she made. Instead, her choices may have been a product of her lack of satisfaction. In my experience, the kind of people who can rise to the level she did at a relatively early age tend to be filling a hole in their psyche, an indistinguishable yearning for something more that is experienced as a kind of pain." [NetNet / John Carney]
$$$ Corey Robin went to school with Bill[y] Ackman [Corey Robin]