All this makes packaged products highly lucrative for the investment firm.
Mortgage securities, like other packaged products, slice and dice underlying mortgage paper into different segments, or tranches, that investors buy based on what risk they want to assume.
Whether you like his antics or not, for the last few years he has been busy helping people better understand investment concepts and develop the skills to manage their money instead of just encouraging people to accept and use packaged products like mutual funds and annuities.
They are rapidly replacing mutual funds as the smartest-packaged investment products available to investors.
The larger firms require all brokers to hawk the same largely proprietary products and pre-packaged in-house information flow.
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According to Nielsen, in recent years new consumer packaged goods products actually have less sales than the products they replace.
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Meanwhile, sales of out-of-store products, such as packaged drinks and coffee beans, do not factor that significantly into the company's bottom line.
The maker and marketer of packaged food products sold worldwide is a traditional defensive holding and has shown resilience in a weak market.
Every year, scores of packaged food products are recalled from the U.S. market because of the presence of (all-natural) contaminants like insect parts, toxic molds, bacteria and viruses.
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Both issues are likely to matter more as broking houses continue to shift from selling stocks and bonds, which produce only one-off transaction fees, to selling packaged financial products.
Mr. Pope restructured Smithfield to concentrate more on packaged-meats products that carry higher profit margins.
The way products are designed, manufactured, packaged, and supported needs to be guided by a passionate, fanatic commitment to understanding and delighting the customer.
Housing loans are not packaged up into sophisticated investment products for hedge funds and the bulge bracket banks to play around with.
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Like all MLP exchange-traded products on the market today, MLPG is packaged as exchange-traded notes (ETNs), which are unsecured debt obligations.
Just ask and a salesperson will hand you a packaged sample or fill jars with requested products for free.
The packaged sandwich chain has also tailored its UK products to the local market, according to its marketing director Mark Palmer.
The suit targets products marketed and intended for babies and toddlers, including grape juice, packaged peaches and pears, carrots and sweet potatoes.
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He explains that packaged goods in rural marketplaces typically were the unsold or damaged products that jobbers brought inland, which often prompted suspicion about their quality.
The lock-in for packaged applications is strong, but it is possible to imagine getting the same work done with competing products.
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New products from Smucker focus on the convenience-oriented "dashboard diners, " like a grilled cheese sandwich or a packaged peanut-butter-and-jelly on crustless bread to be munched on the run.
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