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Building a Digital Technology Foundation in Insurance

BCG

These undertakings include digitizing the customer experience, building digital offerings and business models, and constructing in-house digital capabilities. And we analyzed the main IT trends on the basis of four years of architecture benchmarking with top insurers in the German market.

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Asset Management – Client Segmentation (Part 3 of 4)

Tom Spencer

For passive investing, Blackrock and Vanguard are able to get costs very low due to their scale and skill in replicating a benchmark index. Robo-advisors such as Wealthfront and Betterment charge fees based on money managed – the robo-advisors automatically rebalance portfolios which are constructed with low fee ETFs.

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21 Traits for Leading by Example: Rate Yourself

Rick Conlow

Here are 21 specific traits to benchmark yourself. __offer constructive criticism–no biting negativism! Why not use this list to check yourself and/or your current boss? Leading by Example Assessment. If you are a manager or an aspiring one, how do you know if you are leading by example? Use a scale of 1-6.

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WalMart Margins Set to Plunge? Will Rest of Retail Follow? What About Jobs?

MishTalk

Retail sales reports on Wednesday have me thinking about the strength of the economy, commercial construction, jobs, and profit margins. Fewer Stores, Less Hiring Fewer stores means less construction and less hiring. Wal-Mart''s same-store sales — an industry benchmark of health — haven''t risen in six quarters.

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How to Transform Positive Thinking into Positive Living

Rick Conlow

P urpose-Clarify and crystallize your beliefs on this one question: How do you want to make a constructive difference in this world? Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of highly successful people? These choices give you POWER over the daily barrage of negativism and pessimism.

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Nonfarm Payrolls +113,000, Median Bloomberg Estimate 180,000; Huge March 2013 Employment Revision

MishTalk

The benchmark revision incorporates a large non-economic change that resulted from a reclassification of 466,000 jobs from private households (out of scope by CES definition) to services for the elderly and disabled (in scope for CES). Employment grew in construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, and mining. percent, the U.S.

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11 Habits of Truly Terrific Employees

Rick Conlow

They offer it constructively even if it disagrees with others, including the boss. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people? Form an opinion and have the courage to share it. Do you want to recharge or reinvent yourself to achieve your goals?