For the foreseeable future, as the first generation of Americans to purchase investment management services en masse approaches retirement, the nation will focus upon management of retirement assets.
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Which suggests an interesting business strategy really: purchase those badly managed companies, sharpen up the management and see the profits soar.
Today, IT can purchase cloud-based enterprise mobile device and app management, application development platforms and mobile business applications such as field service and CRM.
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Because he knows these sectors, he can move quickly and charge a bundle, as in the case of nursing home operator Senior Health Management, which had 30 days to purchase 40 nursing homes that Kindred Healthcare needed to unload fast.
Because he knows these sectors, he can move quickly and charge a bundle, as in the case of nursing home operator Senior Health Management, which had 30 days to purchase 40 nursing homes that Kindred Healthcare (nasdaq: KIND - news - people ) needed to unload fast.
Carrefour did so after French billionaire Bernard Arnault teamed up with Colony Capital, an American real estate fund, to buy 10% of the hypermarket concern earlier in the year. (See: "Carrefour Drops As Arnault Takes Stake") After the purchase, the new shareholders reportedly put pressure on management to carve off the property assets.
The purchase late last year of Scudder, an asset-management firm, from Zurich Financial Services, will give it more power to place issues of American securities.
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Once upon a time gold bulls had to pay a hefty markup to buy coins or had to purchase shares in gold-mining companies and hope that the management was competent.
Although it wasn't designed to protect the town from a flood on the scale of last week's, it was enough protection that the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not require business or homeowners to purchase flood insurance.
With the buyer in control of the purchase process, focusing on leads is like trying to implement new management rules with New York cabbies in a snow storm.
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Daniel Mahoney, a financial and management consultant in Philadelphia, said he's happy with his purchase of the Storm, and added other early buyers are being too critical.
Stephen Feinberg's Cerberus Capital Management is walking into the union buzz saw with its Chrysler Group purchase just as the buyout business is set to become a political hot potato.
We set a new career path, we choose a diet to follow, we make plans to save for retirement, we set a new direction for the management team, or we promise to carefully research our next big purchase.
Aside from what it says is a lower purchase price, Cisco hopes to sell the ASA 5500 boxes on the basis of lower management costs.
And just last week, housing-management authorities in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, introduced a policy that rewards home buyers who purchase already finished residences.
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Intellectual Ventures, which has assembled a massive portfolio of patents, mostly through purchase by its well funded backers, has created a huge toll booth that, despite claims of its management, inhibits rather than supports innovation.
Brick-and-mortar retailers also need to update their demand chain management practices so they can reduce out-of-stocks and satisfy demand at the point of purchase.
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This business provides a full range of pharmacy benefit management services, such as mail-order prescriptions, Medicare Part D assistance, and discounted drug purchase agreements with various employers and corporations.
Mr. Russell, of U.S. Bank Wealth Management, said he had thought the recovery would force the Fed to pare back its asset-purchase program as soon as the third quarter of this year.
Decoupling refresh cycles lets data center customers purchase server compute nodes, which are essentially very small motherboards (processor, system memory, boot environment, management, and connection to a local network fabric), separately from rack-level data center network interfaces (1GbE and 10GbE), separately from mass storage (hard disks and solid-state drives).
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