industry that employs millions is not particularly surprising.
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My research so far shows about 100,000 investment bankers world wide. Small pool
I believe one of these eight suicides may have been an investment banker.
Not everyone in the financial industry is in investment banking - far far more are in fund management and trading strategies.
If you include people who work in IT for banks - as this list of suicides does - then it's a much bigger pool.
If you include retired bank employees - which this list of suicides does - then the pool gets bigger.
If you include people in the insurance industry - as this list of suicides does - then the pool expands even further.
If you include people involved in the transactional side of ecommerce - which this list also does - then pool expands by yet another magnitude.