The managers had all risen through the ranks.

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Fund-of-funds managers aim to cut through all this complexity, by selecting on their investors' behalf a few of the 6, 000 or so hedge funds in existence.

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Under the terms of its sale to the Bank of New York in 1998, Callan must encourage all money managers it deals with to trade through BNY and is still receiving payments.

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So markets are not efficient after all and you do need skilled managers to navigate through that.

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Therefore, middle managers could not resist spending all the money that they were saving through the outsourcing on adding additional quality in their product designs and, most of all, a lot of extra detail: a working light on every table in the restaurant carriage, windscreen wipers on the locomotive, a bit of dirt painted on the bottom of the carriages, etc.

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In addition, managers at all levels need to periodically bring people together to actively work through the connections.

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