Up From the Ashes

摘要

On a wall at keefe bruyette & Woods hangs an image of the American flag with Sept. 11 victims' names making up the stripes. John Duffy knew the people on this grim roster, all Keefe Bruyette employees. Their number includes Duffy's co-chief executive, Joseph Berry, 55, who died on his wife's birthday—and Duffy's son, Christopher, 23, an equities trader. Along with other Wall Street firms like Fred Alger Management and Cantor Fitzgerald, the World Trade Center attacks devastated Keefe Bruyette, killing 67 employees, almost everyone in equity sales, trading and research.