Goldman Sachs is preparing to bring in new members to Wall Street’s most exclusive club. The bank’s newly anointed partners — a throwback to its years as a private company — will be thrust into the upper echelons of the banking giant when it unveils the promotions on 12 November.

Since David Solomon took over as Goldman’s chief executive in 2018, the partner pool has been dwindling. The second class to be promoted through the biennial process under his tenure is set to be the smallest in over 20 years. Solomon has vowed to add an extra sense of prestige to the role, which counts 450 or so partners from an employee base of over 33,000. This year’s class is expected to be about 60 people.