And these days there is much less allure for managers in decamping to start their own hedge funds.Lower costs would be good for clients, too.
He rejected it, frequently decamping to America and becoming fascinated by practical microeconomics, particularly how firms respond to tax incentives.
Barclays has already muttered about decamping from London if it is stripped of Barclays Capital, its lucrative trading arm.
As a result, banks such as HSBC, Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers have been decamping to Canary Wharf.
Security firms are decamping from Baghdad to Tripoli.
Even if Hollywood is in the dumps (see article), it still boasts an unequalled array of sunrise industries and the most agile venture-capital industry on the planet; there is no prospect of the likes of Google decamping from Mountain View for Austin, though many start-ups have.
Such readers are decamping not only to the internet (and to mobile-phone messaging for sports scores) but also to a new breed of weekly magazines.
Even Manchester's most famous sons have a habit of decamping to the south.
When people in developing countries worry about migration, they are usually concerned at the prospect of their best and brightest decamping to Silicon Valley or to hospitals and universities in the developed world.
Led by Joseph Kony, a half-crazed mystic, the rebel group terrorised northern Uganda for more than two decades with rape, murder, the torching of villages and the abduction of children, before decamping to Congo's eastern province of Ituri, where it continues to do the same.
The business of film-making may split, says Ms Lemisch, with the lawyers, agents and other suits staying in their Brentwood and Bel Air villas, and the crews decamping.
