That helped to make mutual fund workers and money managers, among others, more productive.
Focus-group participants were angered by the idea that private-equity companies like Bain could profit while breaking promises to fund workers' pensions and health-care plans.
By and large, their populations are dominated by the bankers, hedge-fund workers, lawyers and accountants who have moved with the financial-service firms that overpopulate the islands.
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"This is a significant problem for Goldman," said Adam Zoia, the chief executive of the placement firm Glocap Search, whose clients include many aspiring big-bank employees and hedge fund workers.
The girls grew up in a full house, with their grandparents, their parents, Doe Fund workers and one young homeless girl who lived there for months at a time (her mother, a nurse addicted to crack, had thrown her out and used to complain to Mr. McDonald about how he was raising her daughter).
In other plans that offered mostly stock funds, workers piled mostly into stocks.
