Perhaps the financial-advice industry survives because the idea that the future is unknowable is just unsatisfying.
It was free, apart from the cost of a stamp, when much of the rich world's vast advice industry was costly.
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While the Greens hit out at both parties and said their political games flew in the face of accepted scientific advice and industry wishes.
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For far too long, workers have relied upon spoon-fed retirement industry advice which aided and abetted employer fleecing of plans.
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It told Golden Wonder to stop using the wording in future and criticised the company for ignoring advice from an industry body not to run the adverts.
Brian Madderson, chairman of independent retailers' group RMI Petrol, accused ministers of "making a crisis out of a serious concern" and said they should have sought industry advice "weeks ago" on how to avoid fuel shortages.
As such, it provides advice to government and industry, acting as the referee analyst in cases of dispute.
Advice offered to the industry includes paying close attention to passengers who book at the last minute and pay in cash.
The team, from the university's School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, now hopes to offer advice to the rail industry on how to protect passengers.
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The pharmaceutical industry seeks advice from physicians to improve its products.
The industry is expected to give government its advice next week, and renewable advocates are concerned that their voice at the industry table is not as loud as others.
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The problem for the industry is that such advice will not be needed very often, and that limits the potential fees.
Now debt advice charities, lenders and an industry watchdog are voicing concern about the way that IVAs have been sold and about the number that fail to last the full five years.
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The industry's financial "advice" is one area that the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, if it's ever established, should examine very closely.
"Using your life's savings for a film is exactly what they tell you not to do, " he says, recalling the advice he got from friends in the film industry.
As I report in the new issue of FORBES, the Post has been able to afford to offer buyouts considered quite generous by industry standards thanks to the sage investment advice of its biggest outside shareholder, Warren Buffett.
When BSkyB - under the chairmanship of Rupert Murdoch's son James - bought a 17.9% stake in ITV, the Department of Trade and Industry ordered a full competition inquiry, on advice from the Office of Fair Trading.
But today Health Grades' methodology is an industry standard, and top hospitals pay for its advice.
"Our industry had communicated and behaved as if control and advice were two opposite things, " says Leemon.
His advice will likely shape how the FTC approaches its regulation of industry when it comes to their privacy practices.
He has been seeking advice from members of the public and people in the finance industry on the issue and says he will carefully consider everyone's point of view.
Industry observers say the Legislature will likely heed the advice of the task force, whose members include representatives for the owners of medical dispensaries, as well as law-enforcement officers and elected officials.
This help will not come from the for-profit investment industry because product sales are the main driver behind the advice investors receive.
There are many characters in the forex industry that inappropriately blur the lines between education, investment advice, money management and other related services.
As art and tech circles overlap more frequently, a cottage industry of dealers and specialized consultants has sprung up to offer advice.
Words of wisdom for anyone can transcend industry, and instead of bucking against the idea, share your own advice.
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To help answer that, I sought the advice of Oracle president Mark Hurd, one of the best-known tech-industry executives in the world and a business leader who probably has as many or more discussions with CEOs as well as CIOs as any executive on the planet.
But some financial industry participants insist the rules will backfire, leaving employees with less or incomplete advice.
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