Cynthia Parras decided not to enroll in Cobra after she was laid off from her job as a financial-services product manager in San Francisco in February, because she felt she couldn't afford it.

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Massachusetts Financial Services, an asset manager, has banned soft-dollar commissions (opaque kickbacks from brokers).

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Testing in finance can be fairly ad hoc, said Steve Wilcockson, industry manager for financial services at MathWorks, and it varies by location and industry segment.

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John Knuff, general manager of global financial services at Equinix, said his company serves 50 global exchanges, including 8 of the top 11.

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We made some adjustments to her marketing and networking, and a few weeks later, she got an offer to be the main relationship manager for a financial services client of a digital strategy firm.

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For example, using the zEnterprise System with the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager, a financial services company managing credit card transactions on the mainframe using an IBM blade optimized for analytics can gain insights from the information in seconds.

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"I think there is a spike more for financial reasons, " said Mahshid Albrecht, manager of Donor Services at the Reproductive Science Center.

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Headquartered in New York, Blackstone is an asset manager of alternative investments and a provider of financial advisory services.

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"The conflicts of interest with Hewitt and Aon put EnnisKnupp's clients at high risk, " declares Edward Siedle, a former federal securities regulator who now heads Benchmark Financial Services, an Ocean Ridge, Fla. firm that investigates institutional money manager abuses and also helps in selection.

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Mr. Bisgay is a certified public accountant and was employed in the Financial Services Industry Practice at the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1989 to 2001, most recently as a Senior Manager.

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