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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people? Even today, GM has record recalls.

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Bridging the Gap: From the Consulting Industry to the Management Consulting Profession

Effective Managers

The industry is vast, including freelancers, independent consultants, and employees of consulting firms, offering services across various sectors such as IT, marketing, finance, and more. They can trust that a consultant adhering to ISO 20700 standards or holding a CMC designation will deliver services that meet global benchmarks.

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Why Getting Your MBA Gives You Confidence

Tom Spencer

It certainly allows you to use different benchmarks. As a relatively “late bloomer”, I can definitely say that the program I attended, at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, has allowed me to define myself differently. Image Source: Frankfurt School of Finance and Management ).

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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. However, they also make money via securities lending when other market participants want to borrow their stocks in order to short them. For example, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB).

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Asset Management – Valuation (Part 2 of 4)

Tom Spencer

The outperformance of the asset manager versus its benchmark – which can be looked at as alpha generated. If AUM rises with the markets, this is not high-quality growth – especially if the asset manager’s funds are not beating their peers or benchmark. Net inflows via more investors giving the asset manager their money.

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Lessons Learned from a German EMBA

Tom Spencer

In the fall of 2015, after spending two years in a small town in the Ruhr Valley starting to learn German (I will appreciate Mark Twain’s perspective on the sprache so much better going forward), I moved to Frankfurt to begin my Executive MBA at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Image Source: WallpaperUp ).

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Chinese Banks Hemorrhaging Deposits, 1st Quarterly Drop Since 1999; Banks Offer iPhones, Even Cars for Large Deposits

MishTalk

Cash rebates, trips abroad, interest rates at the highest premium ever over the official benchmark rate, even free vegetables are among other goodies banks are dangling to get Chinese savers to deposit their yuan in savings accounts. Loan Financing Scheme Will Implode Think Chinese banks can lend money at rates that exceed 7 percent safely?

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