On Dec. 26, Mr. Te'o informed Notre Dame officials, and the university hired an independent firm to investigate, Mr. Swarbrick said.
The games industry site MCV quoted one independent firm describing the discounting from supermarkets and online retailers as "serious and suicidal".
Nicholas Colas at Rochdale Research, an independent firm, calls these obligations a bigger problem than pensions because they are neither funded nor insured.
At an independent firm like Lockwood or PMC, the fee is typically a bit more than 1%, but you'll also have to compensate your financial adviser.
Hintz added that Bear Stearns has always been an independent firm, making it hard for him to believe that it would suddenly change the corporate culture.
LaBranche and the other independent firm, Van Der Moolen Specialists USA (nyse: VDM - news - people ) are unlikely buyers because of market concentration.
The Better Business Bureau recommends buying trip insurance with a charge card, which gives you more leverage in case of disputes, and from an independent firm rather than the tour operator or cruise line.
The largest independent firm, LaBranche (nyse: LAB - news - people ) warned last week that it would miss first-quarter expectations, blaming low volatility and a higher percentage of program trading activity.
Hightower CEO Elliot Weissbluth founded the firm for successful wirehouse advisors looking to move to an independent firm and still receive the support of a big firm without all the negative press and conflicts of interest.
Hintz added that Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) has always been an independent firm, making it hard for him to believe that it would suddenly change the corporate culture.
The company also said it will update the FDA about its progress implementing the plan at least once a month and would involve an independent firm in making product decisions during the first six months of operation.
Retain an independent firm to conduct a review of residential foreclosure actions that were pending at any time from January 1, 2009, through December 31, 2010, to determine any financial injury to borrowers caused by errors, misrepresentations, or other deficiencies identified in the review, and to remediate, as appropriate, those deficiencies.
Notre Dame said it hired an independent investigative firm to look into the situation.
The Salt Lake Organizing Committee also hired an independent law firm to investigate the scandal.
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There is only one independent audit firm in Saudi Arabia registered with the PCAOB and it has never been inspected.
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Those companies would have otherwise experienced the ignominy of admitting that a non-independent audit firm had attested to prior-filed financial statements.
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Ameriprise Financial said in its earnings announcement today that it was planning to sell Securities America, its independent brokerage firm with 1, 800 financial advisors.
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Our data source was StarMine, the independent private firm that tracks the buy and sell recommendations and the earnings forecasts coming out of brokerage firms.
GM's case, they have gone from 2.3% of revenues in 1999 to 5% this year, according to a study by CreditSights, an independent research firm.
Doug Roberts is founder and chief investment strategist for ChannelCapitalResearch.com, an independent research firm focusing on investment strategies using the Federal Reserve's impact on stock prices.
Many mall trusts are changing hands these days at significant discounts to their net asset values, or NAVs, says Green Street Advisors, an independent research firm specializing in REITs.
Gary Gordon a stock analyst at Portales Partners, an independent research firm, says there are three big differences between WaMu and the California bank taken over by federal regulators.
When news broke in December that construction had briefly halted on The Bow, the showpiece headquarters of EnCana, Canada's largest independent energy firm, it sent shock waves across Calgary.
It's estimated that 150, 000 foreigners sought treatment in India alone in 2004, and that number is growing by 15% a year, according to the international independent consulting firm Oxford Analytica.
But his logic suggests that the Fed should continue using interest rates as its operating lever to control the dollar, says Paul Hoffmeister, an economist at independent research firm Bretton Woods Research.
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Green Street Advisors, an independent research firm in Newport Beach, Calif. that specializes in REIT stocks, has gone through this exercise for 70 large REITs, a sample of which are shown in the table below.
Joseph Bogdahn, principal of Bogdahn Consulting LLC, an independent consulting firm that competes with Merrill for pension clients, said trustees at several funds have asked him how to spot conflicts, including those involving directed brokerage.
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That could be an increasing problem if recent stats from independent analytics firm Social Baker are to be believed that Facebook is shedding users in developed markets like the United States, U.K. and particularly Japan.
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In a recent survey conducted by an independent research firm on behalf of OfficeTeam, human resources managers were asked to recount the most impressive action they have seen or heard an individual take to try to land a position.
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