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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

They don’t know to add a hefty margin to cover things like self-employment tax, business expenses, health insurance, and nonbillable time spent on business administration. Other tips: Benchmark your rate to increase your confidence. Reassess your pricing strategy as your experience and confidence increase.

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

The interest rate set by the central bank serves as a benchmark or reference rate for banks. Jason Oh is a Senior Associate at Strategy& with a focus on financial services. The interest rates at which banks borrow and lend money are influenced by the interest rates established by the central bank.

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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

The definitive 2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney. Below is our 2014 list of strategy consulting firms in Sydney. This list will be of interest to you if you live in Sydney (or you would like to live in Sydney), and: you want to become a strategy consultant, or. Pacific Strategy Partners. Source: Flickr ).

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Beggar Thy Taxpayer: Currency Wars, QE Strain Life Insurers and Pension Plans; Negative Returns With 4-7% Promises

MishTalk

Currency Wars and QE Strain Life Insurance Companies and Taxpayers Bob gets credit for the phrase " beggar thy taxpayer " but I have been thinking along those lines for quite some time. The yield on Germany’s benchmark 10-year bond has fallen to 0.35 Insurers and pension funds typically buy long-term debt. The ECB''s policy.

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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. I said I could do an assessment, strategy, and plan in three to four weeks and my rate was $225 an hour. Or do they need someone to assess, submit recommendations, and/or create the strategy? The tactics in this article will help if you bill by the hour or by the day.

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Is the Selloff in Treasuries Overdone?

MishTalk

s Bill Gross, manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, said investors should buy short-term Treasuries and credit securities that will be bolstered by the Fed’s intent to keep benchmark lending rates at almost zero. benchmark lending rates at almost zero. ". the basis for curve rolldown and volatility strategies that have higher.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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“Oftentimes, the user experience developed by a company for its customers overlooks critical components of the underlying intents the customer wants resolved through their customer experience (CX),” says Ravi Bharadwaj, executive director of corporate strategy at TTEC. “By

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