Financial News asked the great and the good of financial services to look back on the past year and tell us what they thought of the wave of anti-capitalist protests that swept the globe in the second half of 2011.

• Richard Saunders, chief executive, Investment Management Association "The Occupy Movement does have a point - not in its policy prescriptions, which are naive in the extreme. But it reminds us that the City is not an island apart from the rest of the country, and that the banking crisis has cost over 10% of GDP (and counting), an extra million unemployed and hardship for many more. Parts of the City need to be less cloth-eared about this and show a little more humility."