Money Farmer

A clever, well positioned man or woman who plants complex instruments (such as SIVs, or Structured Investment Vehicles) in the fertile ground of deregulation and then harvests 8 figure transaction fees for his/her trouble. Often defended as a financial risk management strategy—note how well this worked out in the sub-prime mortgage situation. See Private Equity, Derivatives Trading, Hedge Fund Management, Leveraged Buy Out. For simplification, see the movie Other People’s Money.