Prudence and a sound knowledge of a clients needs are required before proceeding with a trust protector.
Thomas Jayne, a New York designer, finds that younger Type-A clients often welcome an aggressively prominent TV set.
When law firms hardly benefit from accountants' huge client base and accountancy firms are allowed to offer legal services only to a few clients, there is little point in accountants having a legal arm.
If a fund soaked its clients a lot last year, it's probably going to do the same this year.
As a result, clients have a much greater level of protection when working with a fiduciary as opposed to a non-fiduciary.
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But for much of that time the family would entertain a few hundred clients at a barbecue in the back yard of Huntsman Sr.
Lytle is now the help desk guy for a dozen clients, including an environmental cleanup contractor, an importer of agricultural machinery from Europe and a chiropractor.
"Southeastern has been working hard to secure a better outcome for our clients through a superior offer or a rejection of the current bid, " the investment firm wrote in an April letter to its clients.
Cope called a secret meeting of his disciples--a hundred clients of his popular investment firm, the Millennium Group.
Still, for an alpha, it's a decidedly polished and useful effort that doesn't leave us wanting like a few clients, including Twitter's own.
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Not only had he competed unfairly with us legit money managers, but we've even lost a few clients to his steady rate of return's siren call.
What enabled us to take on projects that might not have been hugely profitable but gave us a critical clients and credibility was our holding onto cash.
The clinic is run on a voluntary basis and charges Western clients a fee for consultation and medicine, in order to provide a free service for the Nepalis.
"We have been contacted by a few clients so far, " says Alison Borland, vice president of retirement solutions and strategies at Aon Hewitt, which advises larger 401(k) plans.
Advent is rolling out Advent Direct to a few clients in Q4 and hopes to have several hundred of its 4, 000 clients using it by the end of 2013.
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Knowing that most FAs fail, they ask their advisors to burn through their networks, destroying their relationships they invested 30, 40, 50 years into, to hopefully get a few clients before they most likely fail.
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On the flip side, Mr. Tully figures that his firm would likely see an increase in demand for its legal services if the bill were to become law, as he's already heard from more than a dozen clients seeking advice on how to avoid litigation.
Second, much as it soothes the ego to think that your portfolio setbacks are because of a conspiracy, where large institutional clients make a killing and the individual investors get the crumbs from the table, it is institutional clients who lose the most in bad deals because they have more to lose.
As a money coach, I teach my clients a lot of skills to escape this cycle.
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Morgan Asset Management investment strategist Michael Cembalest points out in a note to clients today, doomsday is a wonderful time to invest.
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The results really caught my attention because the survey highlights the issues of fees at a time when clients are apt to be a little testy when their next statements come and their account valuations are down.
They said in a note to clients recently that investors should expect a muted pace of U.S. growth in the second half.
That said, Barclays Capital analysts in London said in a note to clients on Monday that they saw a strong trend tendency in portfolio flows, warning of more outflows given the current high level of investor uncertainty surrounding the euro zone.
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Using the university's technology, a property developer can show clients inside a virtual version of his new flats.
In past years, a law firm could bill clients for a new lawyer's work, even if that time were spent getting the novice up to speed.
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And for a lot of our clients that have a short-term need, some of those folks are holding cash and are able to dip into that savings for the cash for the short-term needs.
That means that workers who do a great job for their clients have a chance to increase their income in a way that they might not in a traditional job offering the paltry raises that have become common since the recession.
Barclays Capital said in a note to clients on Thursday morning that it expected a downside surprise from the official payroll numbers coming out tomorrow.
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Consider this example: Suppose you're sitting in a meeting with clients, and someone asks you how long a certain digital project is slated to take.
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Also cut: assertions she still heads a financial planning firm and gets nearly 1, 000 new clients a year.
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