Reviving a famous broadside by Milton Friedman back in 1970, Simons argued that a company s only mission is to compete and win. Friedman, too, maintained that anything except making money is a distraction.

That meeting produced a notable broadside against the United States, as each member declared its desire to unseat the dollar as the global reserve currency. A few months earlier, the four were moved to issue a joint communiqué ahead of the G 20 Summit in April noting their shared determination to change the rules of the global economic system.