Another Dead Banker – Body Of Morgan Stanley Trader Found

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Another Dead Banker – Body Of Morgan Stanley Trader Found

The body of another banker who went missing  on April 25, has been found  in lake Ontario near Toronto’s Beaches

Toronto police identified the body as that of Murray Abbott who was a Morgan Stanley trader in Toronto .

Although a spokesman for Toronto Police said his death was not suspicious, it is however another in a growing list of mysterious deaths among bankers.

Abbott was a vice president and one of 16 people on the institutional equities desk at Morgan Stanley’s Canadian wealth-management division and his clients included mutual funds, pension plans and hedge funds

The Financial Post reports:

His death wasn’t suspicious, Mark Pugash, a Toronto Police Service spokesman, said Tuesday in a telephone interview. “It was obviously a very tragic missing person’s case.”

Abbott was a vice president and one of 16 people on the institutional equities desk at Morgan Stanley’s Canadian wealth- management division. He joined the New York-based bank in 2010, following jobs at Toronto-based brokerage Blackmont Capital Inc. and Research Capital Corp.

“He was larger than life, a very gregarious guy, very well liked by clients,” Laura Adams, head of Morgan Stanley’s Canadian equity-distribution business, said Tuesday in a telephone interview. “He was just a super guy.”

Abbott’s clients included mutual funds, pension plans, hedge funds and banks, according to Adams, who hired Abbott and was his manager.

“Clients really enjoyed working with him, he was well liked and had a very strong network across Bay Street,” Adams said. “He just worked really hard and had a great work ethic.”

Abbott graduated from the Toronto Catholic School Board’s Senator O’Connor College School on the east end of the city. He had been missing since April 25, when he was last seen with a friend in the affluent Beaches neighborhood east of Toronto’s financial district.

His disappearance prompted a police search and friends scoured the waterfront community, putting up posters. His family offered a $50,000 reward for information on his whereabouts. Abbott’s body was found around 6:40 a.m. on Monday floating face down just east of a water filtration plant, close to Queen Street East and Courcelette Road, according to police.

Abbott was an avid golfer and a member of Scarboro Golf & Country Club, a 101-year-old organization 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of downtown Toronto, where he was known for his broad smile and favorite table close to the wood-burning fireplace in the clubhouse.

2 Comments

  1. Any budding actors interested in being a mourner at the funeral?

    Applicants must be able to cry on cue.

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