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...The second problem we saw was that the distribution the all of the various products offered by asset managers — thousands of ETFs, tens of thousands of mutual funds and hundreds of thousands of indexes —...
...A multinational consumer company such as Unilever currently has very little real-time insight into how their products sell at small storefronts in India, for example....
...Greenpeace blames the Asean code of non-interference in mutual affairs and consensus for the absence of progress....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Sharpe later taught at the University of Washington, and it was there, in 1966, that he published a seminal paper entitled “Mutual Fund Performance”....
...insurance firms under supervision by the Fed due to their banking activities – the likes of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and Nationwide Mutual Insurance – would be subject to lighter capital requirements...
...● The bold advance of product placement continues its inexorable march with a gizmo that allows adverts to be placed in music videos after they have been shot....
...BlackRock is in the line of fire of a number of US lawsuits that allege the world’s largest fund manager is charging excessive fees for some of its mutual funds....
...(FT’s Global Markets Overview) Israel and the Palestinian factions, including Gaza’s ruling Islamist Hamas movement, have accepted an Egyptian proposal to cease fire from 0500 GMT on August 5 for at least...
...Companies with large numbers of branch managers or franchisees, insurance companies with big sales forces and wealth management concerns with thousands of customers are among the businesses his company is...
...“But then they were forced to extinguish the fire. They didn’t want a Lehman. They had to backtrack.”...
...Firms such as Jackson National Life, Axa Equitable, Nationwide and others have launched variable annuities that strip out the traditional benefits and guarantees offered with a VA in lieu of access to uncorrelated...
...“The two companies would fit together well with relatively little overlap and where there is overlap it is in products with limited profitability.”...
...In partnership with private equity group Hellman & Friedman, an in-house team acquired the company from Nationwide Mutual and proceeded to shake it up....
...Here was a huge multinational insurance group with a reputation for solid underwriting and risk management that decided to diversify from insuring risks it knew well – car crashes and fires – to covering...
...Having said that there is a question over whether some of the insurers, which include the monoline insurers as well as other large insurance companies such as AIG, will be able to honour their insurance....
...The final cost of the S&L crisis between 1986 and 1995 was $153bn, or about 3 per cent of 1989 gross domestic product, of which taxpayers had to pay $124bn....
...He has made an approach to Washington Mutual, one of the largest US regional banks, but had his offer dismissed as too low....
...Research Corporation, the Boston-based data company....
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