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INTERVIEW
A working-class kid who was expelled from school, Gary Stevenson was paid seven-figure bonuses by Citigroup while still in his twenties. He tells Jim Armitage why he had to give up his job before it killed him
The Sunday Times
When it came to playing the financial markets, Gary Stevenson had a superpower. It was a power that meant — in the gleaming towers of Canary Wharf in his twenties — he was perhaps the most successful trader at one of the biggest banks in the world, Citigroup. One year he earned a bonus of $2.5 million.
So what was that gift? Arrogance? He had that in spades, but no more than most City boys. Mathematical genius? Perhaps: he was good enough to shine as a student at the London School of Economics (LSE) — but, as he might say, hardly “Stephen f***ing Hawking”. Luck? Not really. He has been lucky, but he’s had bad breaks too.
No, to my reckoning, Stevenson’s superpower — as
