"I think there was a feeling that he was taking the firm too far, too fast," said one Goldman Sachs employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
O'Neal has more recently expressed regret for those moves, saying, as he did in 2002, that the firm had moved too far, too fast.
"The market's gone too far, too fast," said Karl O. Mills, president of the investment adviser firm Jurika, Mills & Keifer.
8.33pm BST Matt Kuchar dropped a shot at 11, and he's so nearly carding back-to-back bogeys, but his far-too-firm par putt on 12 catches the lip at 11 o'clock, horseshoes round the back, and falls in.
Britain has far too few firms like Rolls-Royce.
With rising financial pressures, far too many firms feel compelled to give clients the advice they want to hear, unless that is illegal or clearly wrong.
Far too many diversified firms have become unfocused and sloppily run.
"They should start with the long list of business-boosting infrastructure projects that have been put on hold for far too long – including a firm decision on a new airport runway, new nuclear investment, and road and rail schemes," he said.
"It hasn't really turned so if you're playing poorly on a pitch like this, which is a good slow batting pitch, then how are they going to play if it really turns?" However both Prior and Ajmal argued it was far too early to draw firm conclusions on the series.
It is implicated in pension-accounting fiddles, because it has allowed firms far too much leeway on the assumptions they set.
