Sporting heroes trade places

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Sporting heroes trade places

It’s not often that you can walk onto a trading floor and are greeted by England cricket legend Mike Atherton, twinkle toes Mark Ramprakash, champion jockey Frankie Dettori and Olympics silver medallist boxer Amir Khan.

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But, on September 11 this was the case at brokerage house BCG. Each year BCG, an offshoot of Cantor Fitzgerald, holds a charity day as the firm remembers colleagues from Cantor who were lost in the September 11, 2001 tragedy.

British stars of the sporting world descended on Canary Wharf to try their hands at trading, and it would seem that some were better at it than others. After Atherton succeeded in closing a deal, sadly Ramprakash saw his potential investor decide to wait and "maybe do the deal another day" after the former England cricketer and winner of hit TV show Strictly Come Dancing failed to make his investor believe he knew much about trading. But at least Ramps got a phone in his hand. "I wasn’t trusted with any trades. I seem to have just shaken a lot of hands this morning," was Dettori’s parting comment to Euromoney.

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