The study points out that primary school teachers in England have to deal with larger classes, and that the workload in Scotland has dropped by 10% in the decade between 2000 and 2010.

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In short, schools with larger graduating classes were (not surprisingly) seen as creating more partners in Big Law.

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Teachers and students are both more effective in 10 or 15 student classes than in classes much larger.

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Small regional banks, less diversified than their larger brethren and more exposed to riskier asset classes such as home-equity lines of credit and commercial real estate, are most at risk of running out of capital-raising options.

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Research indicates that emerging managers often perform better across asset classes, and with less risk than larger, more established firms.

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Academy graduating classes can now number around 1, 000, much larger than generations ago.

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This, of course, raises a larger question: do you really know who much you have in bonds, stocks, or other asset classes?

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