Tom Spencer

JUNE 1, 2019

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. Image: Pixabay.

Management 60

Management Retail Banking Benchmarking 60

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Productivity growth in advanced economies has been on a declining trend since well before the onset of the financial crisis, and the workforce is already shrinking in several countries as the population ages. The drop in construction spending is a necessary correction of previous overinvestment and is unlikely to be entirely reversed.

Balance Sheet 74

Balance Sheet Financial Banking Policies 74

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.

Benchmarking 36

Benchmarking Government Policies Case Study 36