The company provides systems for testing and examining the mechanical behavior of materials, products and structures, as well as instrumentation for factory automation.

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It also usually knows far more about the underlying securities in the products it structures and packages than the clients who end up owning them.

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These are absorbed into existing things and systems, from products and businesses to regulatory structures, promoting (hopefully positive) change.

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Thought processes and management structures are indistinct from the products or services they create.

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Trades are made in cash instruments, futures, forwards, options, structures, special purpose vehicles, collateralized products and can be OTC or exchange based.

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And even though the two agencies would regulate similar types of products, their structures are entirely different.

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For example, a CEO may decide that the following goals are essential: Increasing products or pipeline, improving distribution channels, making cost structures flexible to cyclicality, accelerating quality improvement, and establishing market leadership in a given segment or geography.

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