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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. In the 1940’s, Peter Drucker praised the company for its product decentralization but criticized it, even back then, for treating employees as a feudal cost center rather than a base of knowledge and potential.

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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. Image: Pixabay.

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Why Getting Your MBA Gives You Confidence

Tom Spencer

The skills gained from experiencing both successful and unsuccessful attempts to deal with leadership, management challenges, product launches and marketing if not defining a market itself are invaluable. It certainly allows you to use different benchmarks. Image Source: Frankfurt School of Finance and Management ).

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Asset Management – Valuation (Part 2 of 4)

Tom Spencer

As an illustration, a passive asset manager may have a very large AUM, but the fees that they earn on their product may be 10x lower than that of an equity mutual fund. The outperformance of the asset manager versus its benchmark – which can be looked at as alpha generated. Image: Pexels.

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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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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. It may seem strange to have both a benchmark rate and a “floating range” that establishes a cap, instead of just setting a cap, as was the case until very recently.

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$550 Billion Energy Junk Bond Bubble Busts; "Whac-A-Mole" Distortions in Multiple Markets

MishTalk

Energy production is extremely capital intense, and often accompanied by negative free cash flow. The Fed’s decision to keep benchmark interest rates at record lows for six years has encouraged investors to funnel cash into speculative-grade securities to generate returns, raising concern that risks were being overlooked.

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