Perhaps its the fantasy atmosphere of Dubai, but many attendees here are talking about whether the work of lawyers should be more expansive than client advice.
In the past few months, Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, the retail brokerage business for the fund-management giant that has more than 14 million client accounts, said more money has been flowing into stocks and mutual funds.
As much as businesses seek out social media for promotional purposes, more than ever our client conversations eventually steer towards risk detection, control and reputation impact.
While the agency model has given CMOs extensive experience in working with external partners, a much broader, more complex ecosystem is now required that demands much more than a basic client-vendor relationship.
Kerry is more than just a client.
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Next, he suggests you dress slightly more formally than how your client might dress.
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This assumes that the predominant client represents more than 50% of company revenues.
Merrill Lynch is getting into the online-brokerage business, in a move that may be more about defending client assets than expanding them.
And as with Lookout, the results of an MSN search are displayed in a window that looks a lot more like a mail client than a Web browser.
Except for the brief period of mutual antagonism after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, auditors behave more than ever as if their client is management, and now the Audit Committee, rather than investors.
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ZooBiotic now produces 600, 000 maggots, and 1, 500 dressings per month from its pharmaceutical production unit, supplying a client base of more than 4, 000.
It says its customers are heavily weighted toward nondiscretionary spending categories, such as grocery and pharmacy, while its financial-institution client base includes more than 1, 300 customers.
In this environment, where many investors are paralyzed, it might be hard to raise a lot of new assets, making client retention more important than ever.
There are portfolio managers who earn more through their personal trading than from managing client assets.
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They may end up losing more client money in cash terms than they ever made.
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Under U.S. securities law, PaineWebber may have to explain why it allowed a broker to place more than half of a retirement-age client's fortune in Canadian penny stocks.
Defence lawyers said their client should get no more than 10 years, given the collapse of his marriage around the time he offered to give information to Russia in 2007.
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"I have one client who now has more than 10 private bankers, saying he doesn't want to depend on any one bank and risk his assets, " said Kenny Lam, McKinsey's head of Asia private banking.
Take the case of one Granick client who used nothing more than a standard Web browser to discover the master password file of one Internet service provider that was not locked away as well as it should have been.
For another client, they spent more than a year organizing a 60-day horseback ride across Montana, with a fully outfitted mobile camp, not on public right-of-ways but on open land, which required permissions from many private landowners.
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And if you have more than one retainer, then you are not reliant on a single client, which gives you even more security.
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And he will be tempted to shuffle a client's portfolio rather more often than necessary.
Each client paid five dollars and answered more than a hundred multiple-choice questions.
When more than one of us wants to talk about a client we use one of the many free conference calling services available.
Since the summer, Triggit has roughly tripled its client base and revenue and now has more than 100 clients using Facebook Exchange, he said.
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More than 80 percent say they use them for diversification in client portfolios, and nearly half use ETFs to maintain market exposure while making portfolio adjustments.
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More client-side CMOs will be speaking there than ever before.
In just three years, its client-protection principles have been endorsed by more than 1, 000 microfinance institutions in 130 countries representing more than 60 million clients.
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In a further embarrassment, Barclays has received another FSA fine, for failing to ring-fence client money in one of its accounts for more than eight years.
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