Along with demanding the ability to Bring Their Own Device to work, employees (especially younger ones) also want to self-provision their apps based on recommendations gleaned from their social tools and personal contacts, according to T.

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In this scenario, there are no direct broker fees or commissions paid but the inherent conflict of interest is self-serving when offering research and recommendations on proprietary and non-proprietary funds where indirect and undisclosed revenue can be captured.

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Grassley that the agency was working to improve its oversight of self-regulatory organizations like the stock exchanges following recommendations by the Government Accountability Office, which concluded in its own report on the SEC last year that the agency's inefficiency impedes its ability to investigate insider trading.

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Mark Hulbert is the editor of the Hulbert Financial Digest, which tracks the recommendations of a wide range of investing newsletters written by self-appointed market experts.

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While most of them are on par with Samsung's other top of the line HDTVs this year (quad core CPU, five panel Smart Hub and apps, recommendations, gesture control etc.), it's differentiating itself with a display based on self-emitting RGB sub-pixels which it claims makes for absolute blacks, pure whites and prevents colors from being washed out or distorted.

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That these recommendations are completely contradicted by the results of their own research reveals the ability of intellectuals to perpetuate the self-delusion that they are smarter than markets.

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