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Still, the long-term outlook is good for Genworth, which is run with the usual GE precision.

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Loyalty cards can be another source of data, said Cox, who has run them on four continents for GE Money Global.

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Two defectors say that when news of the departures broke in the trade press, Welch was so angry that he issued a new fiat: GE would no longer invest in funds run by ex-employees.

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She worked as a lawyer at Wall Street firm Skadden, Arps and then as a venture capitalist at GE Equity in Hong Kong, leaving in 1999 to run a small responsible-investment private equity fund, Maven International, in the city.

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