Higher trading costs and the associated commissions earned by IFAs certainly contribute to these outcomes, since the researchers find that advised accounts feature higher portfolio turnover (though not necessarily more frequent trading) relative to self-managed accounts.

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"There will be strong psychological and emotional incentives to defend and remain loyal to the family member, and to delude and self-deceive themselves about the reality of their relative's guilt, " Price said.

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Whether tax rate increases are totally self-defeating or only partially so, their cost in reduced economic activity is high relative to tax revenue gained.

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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, also a secure-looking despot, fled Tunis for the relative safety of Saudi Arabia on January 14, 29 days after the act of self-immolation.

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What about our poorer and distant neighbors, the folk elsewhere in Africa and India, for example, scouring nearly around the clock for the means of basic survival such as finding relative safety, drinkable water, and food of any kind that we, with our self-induced complicated lives, take for granted as a basic given?

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