Many question whether a mainstream fund-rating firm is up to the task, and point out that, if retail investors are led to rely on faulty measures, they may find themselves in trouble.

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In the beginning, commercial banks refused to fund his venture while mainstream salons, beauty parlours and large retail outlets refused to stock his product because it was too native.

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As companies seek to win credibility for their efforts at reducing emissions, they are inviting mainstream green groups such as Washington's Environmental Defence Fund to advise them and to keep them honest.

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The roll call of great hedge fund managers includes many names that are becoming more familiar to casual readers of mainstream newspapers and magazines: Arthur Samberg, Paul Tudor Jones, Philip Falcone, Steve Cohen, Paul Singer.

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Close up, in other words, the social and political outcome of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and EU (European Union) austerity programme, and of the implosion of mainstream politics in Greece, looks like a catastrophe for democracy.

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The fund also holds China local currency bonds as well, but those are not easily accessible to the mainstream public.

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