The description included a big glass office, a secretary, a large expense account, and lots of meetings with the captains of industry. This occupation does exist within Salomon Brothers. Because they don't risk money, corporate financiers are considered wimps by traders. Michael Lewis Liar's Poker 1989, Ch. Wall Street is haunted by ancient visions.
Every investment banker is another conquistador lusting after fabled riches in distant lands.
Let a sufficiently convincing prophet descend from the clouds and secular Wall Street becomes a community of faith until the victims far outnumber the predators. Then the outbreak subsides, leaving survivors older and sometimes wiser. Well, the broker made money and the firm made money - and two out of three ain't bad. We may not know when we're well off, but investment salesmen get on to it somehow. Banks are basically glorified brokers.