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Asset Management – Industry Overview (Part 1 of 4)

Tom Spencer

Asset managers are institutions that ‘manage money’ on behalf of certain beneficiaries. Well, asset managers aim to understand client investment objectives and invest client funds in a variety of financial products and asset classes. Major traditional asset managers include: Blackrock. Affiliated Managers.

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Financial Shenanigans Versus Incompetence

Martinka Consulting

Sometimes it’s because they’d sooner “play” with their product than worry about the numbers and often it’s because they’re doing so well it becomes “management by checkbook,” as in, there’s plenty of money so who cares about cash flow, metrics, etc.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. For that reason, management consultants form the vast majority in the advisory branch – more than half of all advisors can be defined as a management consultant.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

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Prioritize Your Opportunities with This Checklist

Harvard Business

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Ultimately, as I have become skilled in using this metric, it has become a calculation I am able to do in my head. Let’s say an interview or speech to 100 doctors or real estate experts would require preparation in an area you’ve never fully studied before.

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China's Iron Ore Inventories Post Biggest Decline in Two Years; Yuan Observation; Pro-Cyclical Stupidity

MishTalk

Iron ore inventories at ports in China fell below 100 million metric tons for the first time since February as the holdings in the world’s largest buyer dropped for a seventh week to post the longest run of declines in two years. What About Chinese Purchases of Canadian and Australian Real Estate?