Simon Rothery takes Goldman Sachs troops to Greenwich Hotel

It's like winning the lottery – if the jackpot was a crippling margin call, a spiteful divorce and an inexplicable flesh-eating virus. Being spotted by this column out on the tiles in a foreign country is cruel and unusual punishment. But were such misfortune to befall anyone, the most deserving surely would be a travelling circus from Goldmans Sachs Australia!

Australian chief Simon Rothery was burning the midnight oil at Robert De Niro's Greenwich Hotel in TriBeCa one night last week during the Wall Street giant's annual partners' global conference. Goldies' HQ is just seven blocks south on the Hudson River and right alongside the renewed World Trade Centre precinct (including Frank Lowy's latest and greatest Westfield). No sign of Rothery's other partners, Christian Johnston and Nick Sims. Must've been an equities thing.