It is about understanding our society and how it can be serviced and managed cost effectively.
This may lead you to buy passively-managed low-cost index funds that track benchmark performance less a small fee.
The army managed at great cost to capture much of the strategic Jaffna peninsula and hold on to it.
The firm also recommended low-cost passively managed index funds from Vanguard.
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Low-cost index funds and exchange-traded funds will continue to grow in popularity as more investors shed high cost actively managed products and the advisers who recommend them.
Active ETFs seem not to justify their existence as tools that aim at enabling investors to access returns superior to that of investing in passively managed instruments at lower cost.
This is an industry which has largely managed to escape even basic cost-benefit analysis.
The possibility of selling diagnosis-and-treatment packages to cost-conscious managed-care organisations could boost the firm's sales still more.
Sharpe states that people who invest in index funds are very likely to accumulate more money than those who buy higher cost actively-managed funds.
Once untreatable diseases can be managed, but at a cost.
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Selling managed sizzle rather than steak enhances the bottom line for the sponsor but like other managed products they reliably increase cost, tax exposure and risk while systematically lowering returns for investors.
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On average, such funds will perform better than at least half the higher-cost, actively-managed funds.
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They are being carefully planned and managed to maximize efficiencies in our cost structure while preserving the investments in innovation in our core businesses of data center, routing, switching and security.
Consulting the income statement shows that MIPS Technologies managed to streamline operations by minimizing cost of goods sold, increasing necessary costs like research and development, and still being able to boost the bottom line.
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But what helps HD stand out from competition is the cost leadership that HD had managed to retain.
With some oft-damned cost-containment measures, managed care brought these premiums under control.
What's more, you can buy index funds that are almost certainly going to perform better than actively managed funds over the long run and cost 95% less.
The HMO said it wasn't a real emergency, a decision that angered Mark Burns as he tried to convince the managed care provider to help cover the cost.
In 2012 sales dipped 2.5%, but with some rigorous cost-cutting the company has managed to post a 12% jump in pre-tax profit.
PMA, Joe Miniace, who came from the cost-cutting world of the managed health-care industry, for changing the tone from compromise to confrontation.
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NHS's basic cost efficiency: it delivers health care of surprisingly high quality at far lower cost than other rich countries have managed.
However, over the course of extensive discussions, it became increasingly clear that the Merrill Lynch 401(k) product was going to be high cost, consisting primarily of actively managed funds probably not the most appropriate choice for Allegro plan participants, thought Shreve.
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Once you factor in the additional costs related to managed accounts, Vanguard is not such a low cost provider anymore.
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Drugmakers also hope that this ability to foresee who will benefit will make drugs more cost-effective, and thus convince managed care companies to pay for them.
However, states are anxious to take advantage of managed care because it allows them to share in any cost savings.
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The widespread replacement of fee-for-service medicine with managed care led to a period of much lower health care cost growth.
Merck explained data emphasising the drugs' cost-effectiveness to European health services and American managed-care firms, which pay a patient's bill.
National and local government agencies need to be supported to develop their capacity to design and implement low cost appropriate systems that are efficient, sustainable, managed by local communities, targeted at those most in need and that address multiple needs of the poor.
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It managed to increase its underlying profit margins, but only thanks to cost cuts.
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