Also, just about the time its shares began to sell off, management suddenly remembered a modest buyback program that had been on hiatus.
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Earlier this year, Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) agreed to sell its asset management group to BlackRock in exchange for a 49% ownership.
Why wait to grow profit when management can sell to make a quick buck?
We sell primarily customer relationship management software and technologies to small, medium and a few large sized customers.
Like Salesforce.com , RightNow aimed to sell its customer relationship management (CRM) software as a low-maintenance, Web-based service, not a shrink-wrapped product.
As expected, the Detroit bank announced today it had agreed to sell its Munder Capital Management division to management and a private equity firm, Crestview Partners.
Alas, the competition can work this magic, too, and can, moreover, sell the portal-management software in a huge package that includes lots of other applications (for managing customers, employees, inventory and so on).
What this says is that the State of Wisconsin can sell or contract out management of state-owned heating, cooling and power plants without the requirement that bids for such a sale or leasing be solicited so as to maximize what the government can pocket through such an arrangement.
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Better still, banks wanting to sell their fund-management arms can lend private-equity firms the money to buy them. (Barclays originally arranged such a deal for a sale of iShares, although that has been abandoned in favour of selling the lion's share of BGI.) That is good news for the private-equity firms, which are finding it hard to get debt finance elsewhere.
In any case, it is easier simply to sell shares than to influence management.
Sony BMG is planning to sell songs without digital rights management, according to a report Friday on BusinessWeek.com.
The government said it had no plans to sell Northern Rock (Asset Management).
As for the Crillon and its stately sisters, why not retain only the profitable management business and sell the buildings themselves?
There are plenty of companies around the country that can benefit from the customer relationship and financial management systems we sell.
That is why consulting firms that offer money management products, sell services to managers, host conferences and have affiliated brokerages or arrangements with unaffiliated brokerages, generally compensate their employees far better.
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But we sell accounting and customer relationship management software.
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The RBI said it is also separately carrying out a study of all banks that sell gold coins and wealth management products to examine whether there are any loopholes in the rules governing sales of such products.
The shift to the cloud and the smartphone also gives Intuit a big opportunity to mine all that online spending and hiring data that can fuel new products and service ideas, and sell customers upgrades like payroll management and online banking.
This mutual-fund selling caused fund-management groups to quickly sell bonds out of their portfolios.
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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is set to sell land for both projects when environmental impact studies come back--probably in April.
The best option for shareholders and management is often to sell up, though that's not likely to be the best option for the economy.
And Sony BMG will join EMI, Universal Music Group and a pack of independent labels that sell so-called digital rights management-free music in Amazon MP3, the company's music store.
The offer, capping six months of negotiations between the Department of Economic and Community Development and Freedom Group, was dropped after private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management announced it would sell Freedom Group, manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15.
By midyear Philips' data centers will be able to "sell" printing, computing and file management services to employees.
Disclosure: Mr. Wisdom, associates, and clients of American Money Management LLC may buy or sell securities mentioned without prior notice.
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In future, Hong Kong's competitiveness will be judged mainly by its ability to sell China services such as finance and management skills.
For Bill Singer, shareholder at the Stark and Stark law firm, bad management is a reason to sell a stock or not invest in it at all.
The insurance industry's widespread acceptance of referral fees, to sell information about accident victims to claims management firms or to no-win, no-fee, law firms, will be made unlawful in personal injury claims.
Gabriel Wisdom, associates, and clients of American Money Management, LLC may buy or sell securities mentioned without prior notice.
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