Goldman Sachs partner list drops 31

Goldman Sachs Group Inc, which is scheduled to announce its new class of partners next week, has 407 members of that elite group, down 31 in about nine months, according to a company filing. That’s because 33 people listed as part of the partnership in a February document weren’t included in a filing released November 2. Two names — Mark Schwartz, hired in June to run the company’s business in Asia, and Richard Phillips, an Australian national — were added to the latest filing. The bank selects employees every two years to a so-called partnership more than 13 years after the firm became a publicly traded company.