The more I interact with Ben Slavin from different capacities in AS I realize he claims no responsibility for anything, cares only about himself and elevating his personal market brand. He has no real metrics and responsibility but gets paid almost a million. How is that acceptable when the rest of us in client and sales organization have specific revenue targets AND if we don’t meet them we get penalized. He does no real work. He must have something on someone. If you want him to be a public speaker only then just own it
19 replies (most recent on top)
@2238 couldn’t agree more
@2239 this man did the exact same thing to me, he was wearing a red shirt with “SHARP” written on the front. INSANE
Ben Slavin personally came into my home and ate all my Mangos !!! 😡
All of this arose due to his work at the bank and me threatening his position.
I know Ben Slavin personally, and he's always getting into arguments. He constantly blames things on "the turning of events," whatever that's supposed to mean. Once, he even deliberately spilled water on someone's shirt, and whenever you try to call him out on it, he just responds with, "What's going on?" It's honestly ridiculous.
BN Slavin, what can I say. He has absolutely NO IDEA what is going on. He just seems to list people’s names and say if they have or have not taken LSD. Absolute mo--n to the highest capacity. I once saw him literally push an elderly man down the stairs so that he can drink his sh-t Japanese beer.
Just reading this, where have I been. In IM, we often joke that BS thinks he is part of the IM ETF team when he has nothing to do with BNY proprietary ETFs.
Slavin? When will someone fire that blowhard? He's useless!
ETFs have been commodities for 20+ years.
BONY is always several decades behind other custody banks.
If he’s getting paid a $Million why not ask him to lunch to pick his brain a bit. I would.
Every Bank has ETFs which are more efficient than ours.
Not aware of any competitor which doesn’t better ETF offerings.
WT is coming back because we cut their IM fee by 40% if they’d give us the servicing with a similar cut. We bought the business and BS will take all the credit. A monkey could have gotten that business with the same financials! Our P&L will be under water for years, service will be terrible as a result and they’ll go back to STT (if they’ll take them back)!
Need to get him out, start laying off people who don’t even benefit the company- actually ruin it.
A lot of people know about ETFs-the problem is Ben doesn’t let the teams get any exposure because he keeps it for himself. And he doesn’t run ETFs anymore but still says he does. Lol
I bet if robin knew that he didn’t have actual metrics and sales targets (in the client organization ) he would have something to say about it. A 7 figure earner with no metrics but talking about himself and ETFs (not even from an asset servicing perspective).
Wisdom tree is coming back….. I’m sure he will take all the credit for that versus product capabilities, STT fck ups.
The ETF segment used to be one of the most high growth areas in AS. It was the place to be to grow within the company or build your skills to land to a better company. It seems a lot of the most knowledgeable have left over the past few years. With the loss of JK from Sales, I don’t see BNY getting more ETF business anytime soon.
The reason is because there are like 3 people at that company that understand anything about the ETF market and operations and he's one of them. And WT is coming back where he once worked, so he's playing the game very well. I think you are just going to have to deal.
The same can be said about most of the L2 and L3’s here. They are just pundits and actors. And as we saw recently, they do their best performances on those Town hall ‘peep shows’ where you are forced to watch and listen to their bad acting.
Absolute lime light hog.