New capital requirements that take effect next year will make the business more attractive to commercial banks, which right now have a disadvantage to the brokers because they have to set aside more capital against margin loans to hedge funds.
In a book called Copycats, Professor Oded Shenkar takes an even more extreme position: first movers have an inherent disadvantage because they have to pave the way for something new.
Although it does have the disadvantage of not playing on seam-friendly surfaces at home.
Right now they have a disadvantage to the brokers in that regard.
Mr. SCHULT: You have an advantage and you have a disadvantage.
And we have seen that disadvantage grow and grow over the last several decades.
At the very least being public does not seem to have been a disadvantage for GLG.
In this new era, the record companies have a further disadvantage: everybody dislikes them.
Europe's diversity may once have been a disadvantage, a clash of cultures and languages rather than a healthy mix of skills.
The Supreme Court has already ruled, just last week, that employees need not have suffered any disadvantage in their job to bring a lawsuit for harassment.
"If Jonny had come back as captain at outside-half with a new centre combination outside him, it could have been a disadvantage for England, " explained Ruddock.
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Rival businessmen in most Asian countries have no such disadvantage.
For some time, they have entirely avoided energy and utilities to their disadvantage, while they have over-weighted their exposure to consumer discretionary and consumer staples to their great benefit.
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One disadvantage IRAs have, of course, compared to 401(k) plans is that there is no matching employer contribution.
If anything, they become more emboldened to pursue their own agenda when they sense they have foreigners at a disadvantage.
In the not-too-distant future, it will be a competitive DISadvantage to not have Open Notes.
The Heat appear to have adjusted to their size disadvantage on the boards.
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In the last 50 years, so much of the career conversation has been centered around the disadvantage that women have in the business world.
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Single mothers, who are disproportionately low-skilled, face a triple disadvantage: they have only one worker, they earn low wages and they pay all the costs of raising a child.
Of course, in a zero interest rate world where interest returns have dropped close to traditionally low Japanese levels in the U.S. and elsewhere, Japan at present does not have much of a competitive disadvantage.
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But commercial news is now at a distinct competitive disadvantage when you have a behemoth like the BBC "giving away" news on the Internet thanks to involuntary taxes that criminalize watching a television without a license.
Fiat currencies have their advantages, but one disadvantage is that disasters like these can happen.
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Their disadvantage is that they have to be scanned physically by a line-of-sight reading device.
And Bombardier said it would have been at a "distinct disadvantage" if Canada had not provided the loan subsidy.
But investment bankers argue that this would put them at an unfair disadvantage, since they have to mark their assets to market, whereas commercial banks can hold large chunks at historic cost.
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Even though they are paying horrendous interest rates and are at a huge disadvantage because these loans have triggers in them that in many cases will make their interest rates go even higher.
This is not an uncommon practice in business in these times, and throwing such agreements out of Oklahoma courts simply based on the fact that they contain elements of foreign law could in fact place Oklahoma corporations at a disadvantage in having to have all disputes adjudicated away from home.
It is not the first time in this Six Nations that England have had to play with a man disadvantage.
That has been a huge boost for Western firms, which have otherwise often found themselves at a disadvantage in the Chinese market.
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