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Asset Management – Client Segmentation (Part 3 of 4)

Tom Spencer

Large mutual funds have strong relationships with banks, where they are able to pay a trailer fee to bank investment advisors to market their product. For passive investing, Blackrock and Vanguard are able to get costs very low due to their scale and skill in replicating a benchmark index.

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Consultant Ninja: Another Casualty of the Financial Crises.

Consultant Ninja

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Consultant Ninja Analysis: Social Security Privatization is dead for at least 20 years. Source: CNN.com , TSP.gov , Consultant Ninja Analysis.

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11 Habits of Truly Terrific Employees

Rick Conlow

I have met hundreds of terrific employees and managers through consulting projects over the last twenty years. What are the benefits of our products and services? They offer it constructively even if it disagrees with others, including the boss. Here are ten plus habits that the best employees exhibit every day.

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4 Mistakes That Kill Crowdsourcing Efforts

Harvard Business

PhDs and expensive consultants on the payrolls of InnoCentive and NineSigma even got involved. Likewise, Quirky tried to manufacture the products its community conceived rather than find expert low cost producers. Alibaba makes none of these new products but instead facilitates the match. These crowdsourcing 1.0