It also bought a majority stake in Copal Partners, which provide outsourced research and analytical services to institutional customers.

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Analytical services: By understanding customer behavior, Maritz helps its corporate customers to improve how their interact with consumers.

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That puts it among the country's five best-performing funds, says Lipper Analytical Services.

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The average closed-end fund tracked by Lipper Analytical Services has a 1.34% annual expense burden, the sum of overhead and management fees.

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Michael Lipper, of Lipper Analytical Services, a fund-tracking firm, has made a small fortune from the industry's obsession with performance comparisons, but has found that time and again fund managers who were losers one year become winners the next, and vice versa.

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Mu Sigma specializes in advanced analytical tools and services with a team of more than 2, 500 highly educated professionals, most of them in India.

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Jeff Catlin, CEO at Lexalytics, the analytical engine used by Reuters, said that in financial services the company uses a training based classification model.

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Innovators in the software industry are rushing to fill this gap with new cloud-based tools and services that provide small businesses with very effective analytical insights and reports.

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Lead the analytical work of the team and promote the substantive quality of all knowledge products, reports and services, and ensure effective integration and compatibility with other fields of education.

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