For the lorcaserin meeting, as with all advisory committee meetings, all Advisory Committee members were appropriately screened for conflicts of interest.
This would replace an earlier Investor Advisory Committee that the SEC had set up in June 2009 under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
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Similarly, advisory committee members must report to FDA any financial interests they hold related to the subject matter of the advisory committee meeting.
Every advisory practice desires to grow but the reality of the financial advisory industry is that each professional can only work with a limited number of clients.
In particular, every advisory firm must provide, among other things, the educational background, business experience, and disciplinary history (if any) of each employee who provides advisory services to a client.
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Yet last year, the proxy-advisory firm recommended a "yes" vote at 20 companies with payout curbs for negative returns, says Carol Bowie, head of U.S. research for the proxy-advisory firm.
"Some of these funds clearly thought it was going to be a hot deal that they could flip" before the price dropped, said Michael Lipper, president of investment-advisory firm and mutual-fund consultant Lipper Advisory Services.
Asset managers earn a markedly higher advisory fee from active investment strategy and rightly so as active management relies on the skill of the asset manager which needs to be duly compensated with a higher advisory fee.
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As you know, on September 16, 2010, FDA held a meeting of the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee) to discuss the safety and efficacy of lorcaserin, a drug developed by Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Arena) to treat obesity.
The full process and resulting applicant guidebook has taken about five years to develop and includes various advisory committees to help represent third-party interests, such as the the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), which advises ICANN on international and local laws.
In December 1995, Mr Hogg tried to reassure the public about the safety of beef by attempting to get experts from the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) -- the government's advisory committee on mad cow disease -- to back his statements.
Other involvements include National Agriculture Statistics Service Advisory Committee, Extension Indian Reservation Program Advisory Committee, Indian Land Tenure Foundation Board Member, Chairman of the Agriculture Committee for the National Congress of American Indians and also serves on his local school board.
I'm a member of the Sustainable Brands Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a contributor to Fast Company, Huffington Post, Mashable, and GOOD magazine.
The same members who were serving on the Advisory Group on September 30, 2012, are hereby reappointed to the Advisory Group as reestablished by this order, as if the Advisory Group had continued without termination through the date of this Executive Order.
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In preparing for the July 2010 meeting of the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee, the FDA sought to provide the committee members with all available data relevant to the cardiovascular safety of rosiglitazone.
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Concerned about the entire class of COX-2 inhibitors, the FDA convened a joint session of their Arthritis Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee on February 16, 17 and 18 to advise the FDA on the risk-benefit profile for these drugs.
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You'll have a shariah scholar who's on the shariah advisory board of a financial institution and on a shariah advisory board of one of their competitor's financial institutions, which in most walks of life, that would be considered a conflict of interest that you just wouldn't have.
Asset managers earn a markedly higher advisory fee from active investment strategy and rightly so, since given the relatively more trading of assets, active investing incurs higher transaction costs but more importantly because active management relies on the skill of the asset manager which needs to be duly compensated with a higher advisory fee.
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The Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health (Advisory Group), as set forth under the provisions of Executive Order 13544 of June 10, 2010, and continued by section 2 of Executive Order 13591 of November 23, 2011, is hereby reestablished and shall terminate on September 30, 2013, unless extended by the President.
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Set up in 1946, it offers advisory opinions to international disputes brought to it by member states.
Certain respected and independent members of 2010 Advisory Committee have been recused from the 2013 meeting.
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Matthew Stader said Afghan troops need advisory teams for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations.
Charles Maitland has been chairman of the General Purposes and Advisory Committee for four years.
Company management teams often bemoan the influence of ISS and some other proxy advisory firms.
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Sensing an opportunity, direct providers have been shrewdly expanding their own investment advisory services.
The IRS is currently accepting applications for the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC).
Griffin says the advisory council is not supposed to challenge decisions that have already been made.
He provides advisory and consulting services to technology buyers and vendors, including New Relic.
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