"The probability that a model ETF manager outperforms after all fees is remote, " he says.
"Most of our people are out-of-towners, " says Atul Kelkar, a manager of Smiles, a Bombay model-training agency.
Once Mr. Guillen, the Tesla Motors Ltd. manager in charge of readying the Model S for launch by July, gets some running room, he hits the electric car's accelerator.
In a blogpost about the Model A, Liz Upton, community manager for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, said it was "very, very pleased" to have the new version go on sale.
The more sophisticated the fund manager appears to be, and the more complex his model, the harder it is for the client to tell whether the strategy will produce skewed returns.
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"It's just kind of a dying business model, " said Jeffrey Klingelhofer, a portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management.
Eric Steiman, a portfolio manager at Covestor, who holds Facebook in his Undervalued Opportunities Model, thinks that even though some employees will sell their holdings for gains now that they can, there will be buyers in the low 20s.
"The automakers want a new version of the OS every fall so that they have a test bed over the winter and can offer it in their cars for the next model year, " said Keith Weintraub, product manager for Windows CE for Automotive.
"I think Ozzie is an incredible role model for anybody within an organization with the desire to be a general manager, and, honestly, that's true whether you're talking about an African-American or a Caucasian, " said Thomas Dimitroff, the Falcons' general manager.
"I am wary of a plane model that has fire problems and leaks fuel, " said Burns, a project manager who takes more than 50 trips a year.
Rene Schuurman, director and global product manager for connectivity services at Citi, said that Microsoft was one of the first movers and its model has generated a lot of interest among other bank clients.
"Clearly when you back out the barter transactions, as well as the three-year dot-com ad contracts that are now expiring, advertising wasn't a viable business model, " says Henry Asher, president of Northstar Group, a New York-based investment manager that holds the parent company's shares.
"There is a risk that a bank is taking results from a model and relying on those model results too extensively, " said Jeffrey Brown, a managing director at Promontory Group and former risk manager at the OCC.
The media-modeling tool was kicked into high gear two years ago when Chad Jacoby, senior manager of Nissan's Business Intelligence Unit, used years of Nissan's consumer research to build a computer model comparing the relationship of each phase of their "purchase funnel"--from awareness to purchase consideration to a transaction--to the phase before it.
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