Institutional investment analysis adds the bond (usually American) option to the analysis.

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Barra aims to sell its analysis to institutional investors, and therefore is releasing only a few individual fund hurdle rates.

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So far in 1999, says Pat McGurn of Institutional Shareholder Services, which provides institutional investors with proxy analysis, disaffected shareholders have already won a vote in six contests to put their candidates on corporate boards but reached a favourable settlement in 25 more.

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Now under the federal need analysis formula only (not the institutional), 529 and ESA assets owned by students are considered assets of the parent for federal aid purposes, therefore they get more favorable aid treatment than other assets like savings accounts, mutual funds, stocks and bonds.

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Institutional investors were supposed to benefit from the damage analysis.

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An increasing amount of analysis based on cash flow is now carried out among institutional equity investors to calculate the real cash return on assets.

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This is critical analysis for any online game company, PC hardware maker, components maker, service provider, or institutional investor with an eye on China.

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