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...Such a system could bring a backlash from publishers around the web, Watson added....
...On September 9, he became chair of Ozy, which was co-founded by charismatic former Goldman Sachs banker Carlos Watson in 2013 to target the “change generation”. Lasry’s tenure lasted just three weeks....
...The height of hubris came with IBM’s attempt to apply its Watson question-and-answer system to cure cancer....
...It is a member of the influential investment consulting industry whose other members include Willis Towers Watson, Aon Hewitt and Mercer. Mr Druley’s route to Cambridge Associates was idiosyncratic....
...Its campaign against Argo started in February, when it wrote to shareholders accusing the company and its chief executive Mark Watson III of spending too much on lavish offices, works of art, staff accommodation...
...James Watson, director of economics at lobby group BusinessEurope, said on Tuesday that the EU must not “move against the international consensus”....
...The so-called “big three” of Mercer, Willis Towers Watson and Aon had feared they could be forced to spin off either their investment consultancy or fiduciary management businesses — a type of asset management...
...Apollo was advised by Willis Towers Watson and Libero Ventures. Aspen was advised by Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan....
...The UK’s antitrust body has so far shown little evidence of a lack of competition in the investment consultancy market, Mercer, Aon and Willis Towers Watson have said....
...Willis Towers Watson, Mercer, Aon Hewitt, BlackRock and 10 other influential advisers to pension funds have started to disclose investment performance data in the same way for the first time, as the sector...
...Willis Towers Watson said it was confident it added real value to clients....
...The CMA looked at funds rated by Willis Towers Watson and Aon Hewitt, two members of the so-called big three, which controls up to 80 per cent of the market....
...The US company is competing in Japan’s investment outsourcing market with foreign companies such as professional services group Tower Watson and asset manager Russell Investments, and with local companies...
...The so-called big-three investment consultants of Willis Towers Watson, Mercer and Aon Hewitt, as well as JLT and P-Solve, which are smaller advisers, control 598 of the 805 fiduciary mandates in the UK,...
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...Mark Calnan, global head of private equity at Willis Towers Watson, the world’s largest adviser to institutional investors, says the construction of robust portfolios is vital for success....
...Mr Marks’ warning echoes criticisms made by Willis Towers Watson, the world’s largest adviser to pension schemes, which said last year that private equity managers were using subscription line financing...
...The team is helping to train Watson cognitive computing applications for the law, including its Outside Counsel Insights service....
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