One pension-scheme manager says he demanded, and quickly secured, a halving of his fee rate from a fund-of-funds.
It is important, says one manager, to keep the support of the staff.
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Hall says one fund manager actually went so far as to say he saw no reason to invest in biotech companies that had profits or products on the market.
One veteran bond-fund manager says that many U.S. institutions are buying Treasurys "only because they are betting they'll be able to liquidate them at an even higher price" as the Fed keeps squashing interest rates lower.
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Then, with much of the European bond market effectively neutralised by the long-term purchase of government debt by the ECB (we are paid not to think about the market value, says one fund manager), you make a large part of the world's debts difficult to value.
"It's like changing all four tires on a car while it's still moving, " says one hedge-fund manager.
Ian Blanchard, the Senior National Game Referee Manager, says that even one assault a season is too many and they have a comprehensive support system in place for any referee who has been attacked.
Elections manager Lynn Marlowe says if one of these new voters tries to cast a ballot wearing a political hat, button or T-shirt, he or she will be asked to take it off or cover it up.
Rachel Jagoda, the Federation's Project Manager for Housing Technology, says one of the advantages to the Haddock idea is that polystyrene products are made all over the world.
One hedge fund manager who asked not to be named says several of his colleagues have moved their personal assets into these funds.
"Don't quote me on this, but tom.com has a big Li Ka-shing premium attached to it, " says one Hong Kong-based fund manager, who doesn't own the stock but wishes he did.
It's already attracted one and three-quarter billion dollars of investment, says manager of the park Gin Ray(ph).
"Wal-Mart can be your best customer and your most difficult one at once, " says Walter Todd, a money manager at Greenwood Capital Management.
One California hotel manager recently called to redeem her card, he says, confessing that she nabbed 20 business cards from a fishbowl in the lobby of nearby rival La Quinta in an attempt to find prospective customers.
Todd Seiders, a former Marriott security director who now works as director of risk management at Petra, says he spoke with the general manager of one of those hotels, who knew of at least three Texas hotels affected in total, though Seiders declined to name them.
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"We thought we'd maybe sell one or two to millionaires, " says Karl DeManns, a product manager for Panasonic's high-end plasma group.
Boston University's Mitchell Zuckoff says no one knows when he went from being a legitimate money manager to a guy running an alleged Ponzi scheme.
However, he insists Rangers were always his first choice and says manager Walter Smith's decision to stay on for one final season was also a big factor.
"This latest concept is much closer to a vehicle that we would bring to market, and one in which we will be gauging consumer interest, " says Lexus General Manager Robert Carter.
Karen Carr, marketing manager of the MetroCentre in Gateshead, one of Britain's biggest malls, says that the number of shoppers is 5% up on this time last year.
Caitlin Hendrickson, strategic partner manager for YouTube's educational realm, YouTube EDU, says that education is one of the fastest growing content categories on the Google Inc.
Ray Jenkins, its project manager, says that counselling addicts at the time of arrest works because it is one of the few times in their lives that they are willing to consider changing the way they live.
Someone who invests with an adviser who outsources the portfolio to another firm could pay four different layers of fees: one from his primary adviser, another from the portfolio manager, one from the underlying ETFs and another for the portfolio's transaction costs, says Rick Ferri, founder of Portfolio Solutions, an investment adviser in Troy, Mich.
"In some departments the entire staff - including, in one case, the youngest female clerk - submitted resignations, " says a mid-level Kia manager.
"It's like being at an estate or someone's private home, " says Deborah Zie, general manager of Cal-a-Vie--albeit one with a new, 17, 000-square-foot fitness center.
"It wasn't about women asking to not be around men, " says General Manager Patrick Davidson of the hotel's decision last year to reserve one entire floor for women guests.
One problem is that Alloy's businesses are too disparate, says Steven Martin, a portfolio manager at Slater Capital Management in New York City, which has a 5% stake in Alloy.
"Two years ago, no one would have touched anything to do with Lake Las Vegas, " says Andrew Stegen, general manager of Ravella, the hotel that filled the Ritz-Carlton's shell in early 2011.
The FDA is working with the Brookings Institution on the one-page guides that could eventually replace other materials, says Denise Hinton, a senior program manager with the FDA. A pilot test is awaiting funding from the Office of Management and Budget.
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