Lunchtime Links: Look - the word's third largest fund of hedge funds is hiring in London. And, does this mean Wells Fargo will hire here too?

As an antidote to sad stories about hiring freezes and eurobonds, we'd like to point out where some hiring is happening.

Hiring is going on, right now, at Grosvenor Capital Management, the world's third largest fund of hedge funds. According to Financial News, Grosvenor has turned up in London and employed Andre Plessis, a former head of the emerging markets division at HSBC, to recruit some more people. Plessis is apparently on the look out for new hires for its institutional and distribution teams.

Separately, could Wells Fargo's rescue of 24 investment bankers from Citadel's failed securities arm be a prelude to hiring in Europe? No one seems to know. Bloomberg reports that all the Citadel MDs hired by Wells are in the US. And Kevin Corcoran, an MD at Wells Fargo's London office, said there's been no indication that anyone will be coming over from Citadel in Europe.

"We have been hiring slowly in London," Corcoran tells us, "But we are a very US-centric bank. No one wants to make a mistake in a jurisdiction they don't understand. We are being very, very deliberate."

Wells Fargo is likely to continue recruiting people. (Financial News)

Goldman's London COO Glenn Earle is retiring after 20 years. (Wall Street Journal)

Glenn Earle is worth 110m (Sunday Times)

Credit Agricole is moving 60 employees from Bahrain to Dubai. Things will only get serious when BNP moves its 320 people from Bahrain to Dubai though. (Breaking Views)

Why banks like people from top universities, take II. (TPMCafe)

Men who measured below average on agreeableness earned about 18% more than nicer guys. Ruder women, meanwhile, earned about 5% more than their agreeable counterparts. (Wall Street Journal)

Britain's bank bosses are to mobilise in an effort to block a repeat of this year's Project Merlin deal, which binds them to targets on bonuses and small business lending. (Sky)

Looks like the FX community will have to work a bit harder next year as new currency pairs come to fruition. (Fintag)

Doing 15 minutes of moderate exercise per day can add three years to your life. (Reuters)

Instead of praising those who "raise awareness" about inequality, perhaps we should shame them, like the office gossip, for spreading envy and discontent. (Marginal Revolution)

Leave your job and prospect for gold in the Australian outback. (NY Times)