On the contrary, he wasn't making that much by their standards. He will likely have many job offers, however. Think of the pr gain that a firm gets from taking this guy on. They would be saying that they really are about the client's interests first. It is informative that Goldman Sachs is all about taking the client's money and nothing about serving the client's interests. We need to rewrite the rules governing percentage fees; it is ludicrous the way that the system is geared to redirecting money into finance, which should never be anywhere near as large a part of the economy as it is now. Finance of finance of finance, that's what we have now, not finance of industry, as we used to have.