Among the rich, dodging taxes has become second nature, said Jamal Mecklai, CEO of Mecklai Financial, a Mumbai-based financial consulting firm.
In 2009, Maryland-based financial consulting firm Quantria Strategies did a study on effective tax rates on companies for the Small Business Administration.
The founder of Serenity Financial Consulting in Milwaukee, he has a wide-ranging expertise in personal finance, from 401(k) strategies to starting a small business.
According to Spectrem Group, the financial consulting firm, only 36% of affluent Americans last year believed they needed very little investing advice, down from 42% in 1999.
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Recent estimates from financial consulting firms paint a stark picture of "offshoring, " which allows companies to get software development and other services at one-third to one-sixth the cost.
Students and parents could then purchase educational services from a variety of sources, the way Americans purchase veterinary services, legal services, financial consulting, physical fitness training and auto repair.
Bankers still struggling with declining collateral values on their commercial real estate loans and tougher scrutiny from examiners aren't going to risk hits to their capital by lending to weak firms until the economy is in a clear upswing, says James Whitney, of Conway MacKenzie, a Birmingham, Mich. financial consulting firm.
Laszlo Birinyi Jr. is president of Birinyi Associates, a financial-consulting firm in Westport, Connecticut.
Before joining the ISE, Katz was the president and cofounder of K-Squared Research, LLC, a financial services consulting firm.
If you're also applying for need-based financial aid, don't worry about private scholarships decreasing your award, says Keema Echols, president of the Kenaly Complement, a financial aid consulting firm for higher education institutions.
She studied business at Drexel University and worked in financial and entrepreneurial consulting before pursuing journalism at New York University.
As the key 2011 holiday shopping season rapidly approaches, retail chief financial officers are split over whether too much or too little inventory poses the greater risk this year, according to a recent survey by financial advisory and consulting firm BDO USA LLP.
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Consulting, financial services, retail and petroleum companies are also looking for new hires.
That comment about not consulting any financial advisers is a clue that the case is not going to go well.
Contrast that with the consulting and financial services sectors, which are offering multidisciplinary practices and a cohesive full service experience.
Were pensions that may have suffered harm ever made privy to the financial information the pension consulting industry provided to the SEC?
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Also reappearing this month is Deloitte, the professional services organization, which specializes in audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management and tax services.
"They are absolutely struggling with this and there is great concern over their branding, market share and scale, " says Adam Schneider, who specializes in financial services at Deloitte Consulting LLP.
Rewards have increased the most for those entering the consulting, financial services and consumer product industries, according the mainly US-based poll by the MBA Career Services Council (MBA CSC), an association for MBA career services professionals and recruiters.
Li, a principal consultant in the financial services practice of PA Consulting Group, a U.K.-based firm.
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Coming from consulting and retail financial services, he had little stomach for the kind of gambles that investment bankers thrive on and occasionally regret.
Thomas, who has previously worked for NatWest Group, KPMG Consulting, Zurich Financial Services and the Bank of America, takes over the CEO role from Paul Harrison.
They want us to believe they alone are immune from the power of financial incentives such as lucrative consulting engagements that overshadow the fees for their public duty as the auditor.
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But to tackle issues related to ethics in finance, he teamed up with two colleagues: Andrew Kumiega, an engineer who develops quantitative research models for an asset manager, and Ben Van Vliet, who teaches quantitative finance when not consulting for the financial industry.
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One company that has considered a merger in the past year is the Trinsum Group, which is itself the product of a union in early 2007 between Marakon, a strategy consultancy, and Integrated Finance, a financial- and risk-consulting company that includes Robert Merton, a Nobel prize-winning economist, among its founders.
Bank customers are changing faster than banks, said Deb Bianucci, President and CEO of BAI, a technology and consulting group for the financial services industry.
Privacy consultant Larry Ponemon told Forbes.com in June that he's consulting with a major financial institution under investigation by several states' attorneys general regarding a major data breach.
In short, an investment opportunity that forbids, rather than encourages, transparency and places strict limitations on consulting with attorneys or financial advisors should come across as a glaring red flag.
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In another ongoing case, Ponemon founder Larry Ponemon says he is consulting with a major financial institution currently being investigated by several states' attorneys general in a major data breach attributed to an e-mail marketing partner.
Around 30 percent are working in either the accounting or financial sectors with the remainder coming from consulting, media and communications, health care, IT and manufacturing.
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