The SEC also has to decide whether to force brokerage firms to break down the prices between what clients pay for transaction services and what they pay for research.
Lawyers were then in the awkward position of trying to figure out what clients who followed their advice could do to reverse those 2010 taxable gifts, as I reported here.
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The difference between what clients and drivers see goes back to this: drivers are heavily scrutinized based on their ratings, and it is important for them to associate the rating they were giving to the trip that actually occured.
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What the clients didn't know was that virtually none of them had received promised quarterly payments.
The chief concern is about what other clients did to get an outsized allocation.
What brings clients to Valensi's salon is the quality of the hair she uses, and its origin.
What if clients pick up the phone and ask to keep different beneficiaries for separate IRAs of the same type?
These companies make most of their profits from the spread between what they charge their clients and what they pay pharmaceutical companies.
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As communicators, we can influence what our clients say and ultimately do.
Contract work meant that we had to deliver what the clients wanted for their purposes why they gave us the funds.
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"The class size will be determined as it always has, based upon factors including individual performance and what our clients need, " she added.
Too often and you may find this hard to believe there were conflicts between what was best for clients and what was best for my employer.
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OpenGamma must of course know what its clients are doing with the platform to some extent in order to be able to understand how to make the platform better.
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While Croft declined to say exactly what her clients are seeking in discovery, Brickman said the key evidence will be the number of workers screened versus the number diagnosed.
He proceeded to tell me proudly that he had sold more of a certain type of deferred annuity than anyone else in the U.S. Obviously, no matter what his clients need, they get a deferred annuity.
Plaintiff attorneys counter that bankruptcy trusts usually pay a small fraction of what their clients could win in a lawsuit and that it is almost impossible to determine exactly how a worker was exposed to asbestos.
In a digital world, where entire songs and movies can be composed from bits and pieces of other media, lawyers are working overtime to protect what their clients see as the right to be paid for every scrap of intellectual property.
Nevertheless, if you like looking in the rearview mirror and care what the clients of one of the biggest investment banks in the world thinks about the market, then it might be interesting to note that 17% of their investors said they were running greater than normal exposure to risk compared to 10% in December.
This kind of performance, though, isn't what the rich clients of hedge funds are looking for.
In the spirit of giving clients what they want, these statistics should at least provoke some serious thinking about how you use social media.
Price comparisons between Reed and its competitors are difficult because fees--often discounted--are related to what services the clients want and how many users they have.
David Maister, a leading adviser to professional-service firms and a former academic at Harvard Business School, says that there is a yawning gap between what the big firms are offering and what their corporate clients want.
What all successful innovative businesses have is a tight focus on what would delight their clients.
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Two years ago the firm surveyed its staff and clients about what they thought Goldman stood for.
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Kunze has 25 of his 328 employees assigned to making sure clients get what they need on time.
Lankford even tests the way systems react after sudden shutdowns and reboots, so clients know what to expect--and what data might get lost.
It went against her notion of the free market and competition, which is exactly what she believed microfinance clients needed to operate in.
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