高盛擬裁減30%亞洲投行家

Goldman Sachs is to axe up to 30 per cent of its investment bankers in Asia, as it grapples with a regional slowdown and intensifying pressure to improve returns to shareholders.

高盛(Goldman Sachs)將在亞洲裁減最多30%的投行業務崗位，目前該投行正應對區域放緩以及日益增強的提高股東回報的壓力。

The move could mean that as many as 90 investment bankers across the region will be laid off over the next few months, according to people familiar with the bank’s plans, with the bulk of the cuts in Hong Kong and Singapore.

據熟悉該投行裁員計劃的人士稱，此舉可能意味着，未來幾個月，該地區將有多達90個投行崗位被裁撤，大部分裁員出現在香港和新加坡。

The cuts also mean that the New York-based bank is partially unstitching the Asian network it built up over the past 15 years, in the belief that having big teams of bankers on the ground in markets such as China and India would unlock opportunities.

此次裁員還意味着，這家總部位於紐約的投行正部分拆解其在過去15年建立起來的亞洲網絡，此前該行認爲，在中國和印度等市場擁有龐大銀行家團隊將釋放機遇。

However, profits have failed to flow as steadily as promised, with hubs such as Hong Kong now dominated by Chinese rivals. Mainland securities companies occupy seven of the top 10 positions in advising on Hong Kong initial public offerings this year, according to Bloomberg.

然而，利潤增長並不如預期的那麼穩定，香港等中心現在由中國競爭對手主宰。根據彭博(Bloomberg)的數據，在今年香港首次公開發行(IPO)十大交易顧問公司中，中國內地證券公司佔到了7家。

Bankers in Australasia and Japan are unaffected by Goldman’s headcount cuts, while departures in mainland China will be relatively few, the people said. The exact number of lay-offs is yet to be confirmed, but is likely to be at least one in every five among Goldman’s 300 bankers across the countries affected.

上述知情人士表示，澳大利亞和日本的投行人員沒有受到高盛裁員的影響，同時中國內地的裁員相對較少。具體裁員數據尚未得到證實，但可能至少佔到受影響國家300個投行崗位的五分之一。

The bank declined to comment on the lay-offs, which were first reported by Reuters.

高盛拒絕就裁員置評，路透(Reuters)最先報道這一新聞。