During the 1920s, the financial industry underwent a great expansion, bringing into the business many inexperiencedpeople and new investment vehicles -- most notably the investment trust, the forerunner of the modern mutual fund.
When it comes to employers inexperienced in working with people with disabilities, temporary to permanent arrangements are a great, low-risk way to get people with disabilities into the workforce.
And usually, the kind of people they hire are young, inexperienced and inexpensive analysts that were not good enough to work for an investment firm but were good enough to be hired by the advisory services.
Surely this was never going to be an upbeat story, given that many talented people were let go or quit (some replaced by relatively inexperienced newbies) and the huge stresses of the change.