Lunchtime Links: Make 1k a day running the National Pension Scheme

Financial News has unearthed a lucrative job in the public sector. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWIP) is looking for a chair of its board of trustees and is willing to around 1k a day for 100 days' work a year.

The role will involve overseeing investment managers and administrators for the national pension scheme that's launching in 2012. Eligible candidates don't need particular academic requirements, but will need to be, "a very senior figure from the investment, fund management, financial services and pensions community with a reputation both for outstanding strategy, innovation and consistent delivery of results with an exceptional track record of achievement in a sizeable and complex organisation."

Nomura hires a US head of fixed income. (EMII)

Troika Dialog hires three for equities sales and sales trading; BofA Merrill hires for EMEA distressed debt sales. (CityAm)

HSBC hires a media banker from Rothschild. (Financial News)

Barclays Capital wins mandate to advise the LSE on mergers. (The Times)

FSA ban for directors who pay their staff too much. (The Times)

UBS relocates senior fixed income banker back to the UK as part of continued push in FICC. (Financial News)

HSBC selling its Docklands HQ (again). (Independent)

Life in the upper echelons of Wall Street: 'The ledge is very narrow and the elbows are razor sharp.' (SenseonCents)

The big swinging dicks with real skin in the game ignored, bullied, or co-opted the sniveling little (equity-less) PhDs sent to rein them in. (EpicureanDealmaker)

Why you can't network your way into investment banking, and what to do about it. (MergersandInquisitions)

Tragedy of the week: Unemployed Venezuelan hotties. (LolFed)