In decades past, the city of Nashville, Tennessee, has been famous for its vibrant music scene. Now its leaders are singing a new note — finance. Yes, you read that right. On Wednesday AllianceBernstein, one of the largest US asset managers with $550bn under management, said it will move its headquarters out of New York, where it has been based for 50 years.
过去几十年里，田纳西州的纳什维尔(Nashville)以充满活力的音乐行业闻名。现在，该市领导人正在唱一个新调子——金融。是的，你没看错。上周三，美国最大的资产管理公司之一、管理着5500亿美元资产的安联伯恩斯坦(AllianceBernstein)表示，它将迁出已有50年历史的纽约总部。
Nearly 1,000 staff, including Seth Bernstein, the chief executive, will head to Nashville. “Moving our corporate headquarters here allows us to offer advantages to our employees that we simply couldn’t in the New York metro area,” Mr Bernstein declared. He cited “a more affordable cost of living, with lower taxes and housing costs, a high quality of life . . . and a brand-new, state of the art work environment, with all the best technology and tools”, as the reasons for the 885-mile shift.
包括首席执行官赛斯•伯恩斯坦(Seth Bernstein)在内，近1000名员工将迁至纳什维尔。伯恩斯坦宣称：“把公司总部搬到这里，让我们能给员工提供一些在纽约大都市区根本无法提供的优势。”他提到，搬迁885英里的理由包括“较低税收和房价带来的更低的生活成本、更高的生活质量……一个全新的最先进的工作环境，拥有所有最好的技术和工具”。
Now, a cynic might point out that this is only a partial relocation: although the asset manager’s legal, trading and sales are moving south, some 1,000 of the fund manager’s 3,500-odd employees will stay in the Big Apple to perform roles such as sellside research, private wealth management and portfolio management.
嗯，爱说反话者可能会指出，这只是部分搬迁：尽管这家资产管理公司的法律、交易和销售业务将要南迁，但其3500多名员工中的约1000人将留在纽约执行卖方研究、私人财富管理和投资组合管理等职能。