The fees of commission-based agents and brokers are tied to specific products and transactions.
In an attention-grabbing article in Harvard Business Review, Pink argues that commission-based pay schemes are badly outdated.
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Most commission-based agents and brokers are no doubt sincere people trying to do honest work for their clients.
Commission-based advisors with insurance licenses sell you whatever form of annuity would have performed well over the past decade.
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They stopped all commission-based compensation at Watts Valve and implemented new anti-corruption policies.
BrightScope.com provides online records -- at no charge -- on nearly 450, 000 financial professionals, from commission-based brokers to fee-only advisers.
The insurance industry and many brokers oppose it because it would likely change their business models from commission-based to client-centered.
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On the surface, shifting from a commission-based compensation to an hourly fee-based approach seemed like an astute move for Advertisers.
Although even commission-based agents can serve their clients in unique ways, product commissions seem a backhanded way to acquire comprehensive wealth management.
The mutual fund industry and advisers who sell commission-based products take advantage of unsophisticated investors by marketing high-fee, high-commission funds that earn low returns.
For others, those with commission-based income, hourly jobs that shift income or self-employment income, tracking recording your income is every bit as important as your spending.
Chinese banks sometimes outbid Western banks because they often offer commission-based pay allowing a sponsor to double his base salary in a good year, the bankers said.
Commission-based agents and brokers often take offense at this distinction.
Phenomenal communication skills are also essential for commission-based jobs.
Protections requiring brokers and commission-based advisors to put the interest of their clients before their own were in the original version of the bill, but were removed under pressure from Wall Street, a big win for them.
Sunday's order from the Communications and Media Commission includes the Qatar-based satellite network Al Jazeera and eight outlets aimed at the country's Sunni Arab minority.
Gross domestic product in the 17-nation region will fall 0.3 percent this year, compared with a November prediction of 0.1 percent growth, the Brussels-based commission forecast today.
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Euro-zone governments, in an effort to convince markets of their seriousness in getting their finances under control, agreed to tougher fiscal disciplines that they said would be policed vigorously by the Brussels-based commission.
In a Nov. 19 regulatory filing ( PDF) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Kansas City-based BATS Exchange revealed that it was seeking comment on listing three managed futures strategies from ProShares.
On campaign spending limits - which cover the "regulated", 16-week period of the campaign before the poll is held - the commission based its recommendations partly on information it now had on the likely shape and scale of campaigning.
They could simply buy Marriott stock (which is all this fund invests in), incurring only a brokerage commission, as opposed to a recurring asset-based fee on top of any commission.
In the United States, the Washington-based safety commission said it has received two reports detailing the severe effects of the digested beads.
Less noticed by the Davos crowd was Ms. Merkel's vision for a federal Europe in which the Brussels-based European Commission would become "more and more like a government, " sucking powers away from national capitals.
Lord Mandelson urged the European Commission "to ensure a commercially-based outcome rather than one determined by political intervention and subsidies".
The third typical model is a fee-based model plus commission , where the adviser charges a set project or hourly fee and earns commissions on the sale of products he recommends.
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Yet the Holdren-Beddington article is based on data and studies from the Congressional EMP Commission--that warns about both natural and nuclear EMP threats.
The Geneva-based United Nations Economic Commission for Europe was set up in 1947 to co-ordinate reconstruction in shattered post-war Europe.
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Intrade is cutting off its US customers after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sued the Ireland-based company for violating US law.
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The Malaysian Securities Commission has taken the view that web-based investment advisory services that would charge money should be licensed separately to protect investors.
In a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission, the Forest Hills, New York-based airline disclosed they raised their second quarter outlook for operating margins and income loss before taxes.
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