Some advisors have outsourced tactical asset allocation decisions to sub-advisors who run model portfolios using index funds and ETFs.
The company says it can run even a power-hungry model for up to 60 hours before the gadget needs refuelling.
If IBM is serious about this business, it is almost certain to make a run at an Amazon-type model sometime soon.
But in an agent-based model you simply run a computer simulation to see what emerges, free from any top-down assumptions.
Naturally, there's no full-size USB port on this smaller model, though you will find run-of-the-mill micro-HDMI and micro-USB connectors.
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H1-B visas for skilled workers might serve as a model: they can run for two three-year periods, giving both workers and employers time to decide whether they would prefer a permanent arrangement.
He thinks the app-centric model is destined to win over the long-run and Apple will benefit more than anyone else (at least for a number of years).
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Galleries that run along this central display present model ships and 17th-century Massachusetts period rooms.
India's growth model has been to run a small current-account deficit, financed with high-quality capital inflows, such as foreign direct investment and equity purchases.
As a result, they can do what-if analysis, model data, and run sophisticated data mining and forecasting algorithms that return answers within minutes, enabling them to fine-tune and refine their offers and service bundles to accurately reflect the needs of their subscribers.
If the world's economies run best on a Hayek-Schumpeter-Friedman-Laffer free-market model, then economists of the meddling sort have little to do.
California's general run of Pinot Noirs are far more distant from their original French model--Burgundy--than, say, the state's Cabernets are from Bordeaux.
The goings-on at the Confederation of Brazilian Football, run on the Havelange model, have contributed directly to the decline in crowds and standards in the domestic leagues, and have damaged the image even of the beloved national team.
In theory, the presence of private shareholders in DB ML should reduce its ability to win special treatment from DB Netz, though Mr Mehdorn will, bizarrely, continue to head both DB and DB ML. The privatisation represents a step towards the British model, in which private firms run trains on a state-owned network.
Blair's largely successful two-and-a-half term run as Britain's prime minister should serve as a model for President Obama.
The company found that, in many cases, particularly with trucks and vans, the gas-powered model would end up costing owners less in the long run, despite using more fuel.
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One under-reported but highly significant aspect of the whole extraordinary incident is that Mr Dimon announced that he was abandoning a new financial system for monitoring the risks run by the Chief Investment Office and reverting to the old one - because the new model was chronically understating the potential losses the bank could have generated on any given day.
Both Hewlett-Packard 's (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) Utility Data Center model and Sun Microsystems ' (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) N1 approach stress filling computers with the heaviest possible workloads--a change from the standard model of buying new servers when they run at 30% of capacity, for fear of hitting the occasional spike in activity.
It is not a model that many can emulate: most parents with the skills to run a mid-sized business already have their hands full.
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While you could argue that this MacBook Pro model (released in 2010) is guaranteed to run more smoothly than any three-year-old laptop running Vista, that argument does not hold up when compared to Windows 7 machines released in 2009 and 2010.
We don't believe that the current business model for most producers of higher-end American Chardonnay will work in the long run.
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However, this model is dependent on limited donor funding and may be difficult to sustain in the long-run.
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The applications received by Monday, which must work successfully on an "emulator" or computer model of Android, likely run the gamut from productivity to entertainment, with plenty of games, location-specific services and applications aimed at helping keep people organized.
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