A chronological summary of all recent banker deaths:
Sunday, Jan. 26: London police found William Broeksmit, a 58-year-old former
senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, dead in his home after an apparent
suicide.
Monday, Jan. 27: Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym died after falling
from a hotel room in Bangkok in what police said could be possible suicide.
Slym, 51, had attended a board meeting of Tata Motors’ Thailand unit in the
Thai capital and was staying with his wife in a room on the 22nd floor of
the Shangri-La hotel. Hotel staff found his body on Sunday on the fourth
floor, which juts out above lower floors.
Tuesday, Jan. 28: a 39-year-old JPMorgan employee died after falling from
the roof of the European headquarters of JPMorgan in London. The man,
Gabriel Magee, was a vice president in the investment bank’s technology
department, a source told WSJ.
Wednesday, January 29: Russell Investments’ Chief Economist Mike Dueker was
found dead in an apparent suicide. Police said it appears Dueker took his
own life by jumping from a ramp near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Tacoma,
Wash., AP reported. According to Bloomberg, Dueker, 50, had been missing
since Jan. 29, and friends and law enforcement had been searching for him.
The week before, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG died.
The cause of death has not been made public.
Monday, February 3: 37-year-old JPMorgan Chase & Co executive director who
died from unknown causes Feb. 3 appears to be the latest in a series of
untimely deaths among finance workers and business leaders around the world
in the past three weeks. Ryan Crane, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. employee who in
a 14-year career at the New York-based bank rose to executive director of a
unit that trades blocks of stocks for clients, died in his Stamford,
Connecticut, home.
Tuesday, February 18: 33-year old JPMorgan forex trader is the latest in a
string of suicides to take his life in Hong Kong.