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Meet Morgan Stanley's Chief Cartoonist

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Regards,There are many ways to stand out from the throng of young hungry graduates applying for prized investment banking jobs every year, but few do so with witty penmanship.

In 2004 Gregory Peters was interviewing candidates for a slot on Morgan Stanley’s credit strategy team, and one young Brown University graduate caught his eye. It wasn’t his degree in mathematics and economics – or even his stint on Brown’s ultimate Frisbee team – but a stint drawing cartoons for the university paper.

“I thought it was perfect,” recalls Mr Peters, who is now a senior fund manager at PGIM Fixed Income. “He could take the most complex things going on in markets and turn them into these brilliant little cartoons.”

Andrew Sheets, the young graduate he hired over a decade ago, is now head of cross-asset strategy at Morgan Stanley, after a decade of covering corporate bond markets in the US and Europe. But the cartoons have continued to flow, and together form a light-hearted, vivid history of a turbulent period for markets and the global econom
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