Lunchtime Links: Dumped by Lehman? Welcome back

Lehman Brothers is re-embracing its recently ousted heads of fixed income and credit products, and showing its affection by offering them even bigger jobs than they had before (Bloomberg).

Barclays is raising 4.5bn from sovereign wealth funds and Asian banks, and might spend some of it on US banks (Guardian).

UBS has hired Lazard to conduct a strategic view of its investment bank. HSBC could be a buyer (New York Post).

Pay for investment banking CEOs was down 43% last year (Financial News).

...but some bankers can still afford to take the helicopter back from Ascot (Wall Street Journal).

How many bankers are really unemployed (The Deal)?

Out of work banker dons sandwich board in search for a job (Dealbreaker).

Avoid redundancy: make yourself too expensive to axe (Naked Shorts).

The rich are getting richer, particularly in India, China and Brazil (Guardian).

Rich people are more stressed, and spend less time relaxing in front of the TV (Wall Street Journal).