Expensive, poor performing variable annuity insurance products dominate this niche that many mutual fund companies seemly ignore.
That was the hole, much of it caused by some poor performing local currency bonds in South Africa.
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Thanks to endorsement schemes, high cost, poor performing variable annuities have come to dominate the 457 and 403b marketplace.
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So even executives in average and poor performing companies can do quite well.
For decades, the advice investors got from Wall Street was hardly independent and the products marketed were generally high cost, as well as poor performing.
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Even financial services companies with poor performing funds and high sales loads find ways to justify offering only their funds in the employee 401(k) plan.
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The image of a quirky, poor performing electric car is falling.
Unless your children are among those classes stuck with a poor performing teacher, you may be inclined to neglect this problem by hoping for better over the next school year.
Today, because Medicare pays for admissions no matter what the cause, the current system perversely encourages round trips to the hospital, especially in poor performing facilities with lots of empty beds.
Major Wall Street money managers and affiliates of the money managers acting as independent fiduciaries have parceled out pension portfolios to high cost, poor performing firms with whom they have longstanding, undisclosed business arrangements.
Similarly, an ill-conceived or poor performing policy not only does not grow the intended sector or segment, it often even fails to recoup the cost of the specialized tax treatment and associated programmatic costs.
Some particularly poor performing acute trusts were highlighted: Barking, Havering and Redbridge hospitals received a double weak rating, while the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust was deemed weak for the fourth year in a row.
As well as calling for more patients to receive this annual review, Diabetes UK said it wanted the government to hold poor performing areas to account because in some places fewer than 20% of people with the condition were getting the checks.
Most are rife with conflicts of interest, excessive fees, poor-performing investment options and other deficiencies that, unfortunately, are difficult for employees to ferret-out.
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If it's a public education, and the school in your district is poor-performing, you should be able to put your student or kid wherever you want.
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Others will read the comment as a simple reference to the effect that any poor-performing franchise in a top media market has on its respective league.
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For instance, high school guidance counselors can encourage poor-performing students to take the ACT exam over the SAT exam, so that their SAT score remains high.
For all the talk about the federal government protecting the poor and performing essential services, Washington is mostly about paying off those with the most power and influence.
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Mr. Weiner, whose mother was a public schoolteacher, repeated ideas he has laid out over the last week: use gifted-and-talented programs to attract students to poor-performing schools, and treat teachers better.
And if a poor-performing parent lands in Chapter 11, taking its dynamo of a sub with it, that's too bad for the sub's investors, since the sub is an asset of the parent.
But since my mom is functionally illiterate and we grew up on the west side of Detroit, I'm forced to go to this school that has been a poor-performing school for 30 years.
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Equally poor-performing nonprofit schools would not be penalized.
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There are just so many poor-performing schools here, and there are so many kids in our city that want to do the right thing, and families that want to put their kids in a quality school.
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Instead, poison pill plans protect poor under-performing management teams.
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And he didn't make up for this relatively poor scoring efficiency by performing well in the other areas they measure, such as defense, rebounding and avoiding turnovers.
Golinkin closed RediClinic's two worst-performing outlets in poor, Spanish-speaking neighborhoods in 2006 and decided he would have better luck targeting time-pressed suburbanites with kids and insurance.
Serious, competitive reform to the banking system is essential if the state banks' legacy of poor profitability and high non-performing loans is not to continue jeopardising the country's prospects for growth.
Keep it boiling or agree to a settlement that will yield peace and increased prosperity for your people but to the now-aging militants might only mean the drudgery of performing the mundane duties of a real politician in a poor backwater.
Picking the top performing funds may seem intuitive but it turns out that not only is past performance a poor indicator of future performance, it may actually be an indicator of poor future performance.
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