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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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How to Transform Positive Thinking into Positive Living

Rick Conlow

Networks subtly tell us we aren’t good enough with over 15 minutes of commercials per hour telling us how we can improve our lives if only we had their products. Whether you are at the movies, market, coffee shop or mall, politeness and manners are out. By the time we are 65, we have witnessed over 2 million of these commercials.

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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

What are the benefits of our products and services? They offer it constructively even if it disagrees with others, including the boss. Stay marketable. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people? Know the business and keep your eye on the big picture. Pulling It All Together.

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What's Behind the Plunge in Oil? Winners and Losers? Boon to Spending or Recessionary?

MishTalk

Explaining the Plunge in Oil Slowing global economy, especially China and Europe US production expansion OPEC pumping above quotas – they all cheat Iran embargo failing Increased fuel economy Attitudes of millennials towards cars and driving I give heaviest weight to number one, but they all cascade. No conspiracy theories needed.

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Consultant Ninja: Another Casualty of the Financial Crises.

Consultant Ninja

Imagine if social security funds were invested in the market. Well make sure there are good options to protect your investments from sudden market swings on the eve of your retirement." I think a more interesting graph would show each fund against a respective benchmark (e.g., Productivity. (6). Choose your poison.

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Diving Into the Payroll Report: Wages Rebound (But Don't Get Too Excited), Revisions, Huge Jump in Labor Force

MishTalk

The annual benchmark process also contributed to these revisions. Job gains occurred in retail trade, construction, health care, financial activities, and manufacturing. Average hourly earnings of production and non-supervisory private workers rose $0.07 at 5.7% - Household Survey U-6 unemployment: +0.1 from $20.57

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