From research supremo to Phileas Fogg. Such is the path being taken by Andrew Houston, the former research boss at JPMorgan and before that, Jardine Fleming, who has just quit.
The plucky ex-Gurkha, who combines an encyclopaedic knowledge of James Bond trivia with a love of EVA, has decided that enough is enough and that he wants to travel the world before it is too late. He says he asked himself over the Summer, Have I done enough in my life and realized the answer was no. He also recognized that another bear market was upon us, and he wasn't sure he wanted to tough it out and go through another...
