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A cowboy-hat-wearing robot with “Sell” emblazoned across its chest adorns a wall-length mural in the lounge of RGM Advisors LLC in Austin, Texas. Another robot, with “Buy” on it, wobbles toward a green Wall Street sign as two machines tote spark-emitting high-speed cables.
“We explained to a local artist that we wanted a mural that represented our business, and he came up with the design,” RGM Chief Executive Officer Richard Gorelick says in an airy 16th-floor office that calls to mind a Scandinavian design firm rather than a company that trades hundreds of millions of shares a day, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its November issue.