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Industry Recap: Rational Selfishness


The chaos of the Lumi IPO is the perfect stress test for our characters. (Spoiler: they don’t do well!)

Harper takes the opportunity to cross-talk with Petra, Anna’s disgruntled second in command, and pitch her idea for FutureDawn to hedge their Lumi exposure by buying natural gas futures and shorting the Great British Pound. As a result, Henry inadvertently begins a rumor that all smart money — institutional investors considered to be in the know and influential to financial markets — has left Lumi, causing the stock price to plummet further. While there, it was established that Muck’s squash partners, the investor Otto Mostyn and media mogul Lord Norton, ran in the same circles as Yasmin’s father, Charlie Hanani.

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