If you're advocating that the hedge fund managers and pension funds accept a smaller return on investment in order to save Yahoo! engineers from layoffs -- that's a breach of fiduciary duty and against the law.
"Honest" or it's derivatives is the last word I would use in a sentence which includes Wall Street. Haven't Wall Street proven time and again that they are only interested in short term gains rather than a long term vision? I would be skeptical about any advice/opinion from a Wall Street firm.