But he sounded much more like a campaign manager selling a strategy than a man trying to become president.
He sat next to his right-hand man at Goldman, Gary Cohn, and in the same section as the short-selling hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond and Nasdaq head Bob Greifeld.
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They have had money to spend from selling players and their manager Dave Jones has manipulated that money.
One way to remove that incentive is to prevent the manager from selling the shares until some time after he has left the company, say three years.
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The public is sitting in passive index ETFs now, no need to trade or to have a broker or mutual fund manager buying and selling things on their behalf.
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The store's website, Americastore.com, has already been selling the doll, said district manager Andrea McNiff.
The hardest problem with drug stocks for a portfolio manager is to avoid selling.
As many as 40 more American firms are planning their attacks, most notably Vanguard, America's second-largest fund manager, which started selling funds in Europe last April.
"People are coming in and selling everything, " says Glenn Parshall, manager of a pawn shop on the northern side of Vegas.
Consultants are selling services to money managers and hosting conferences where their manager clients can, for a hefty fee, meet their pension fund clients.
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Chris Hansen, the hedge fund manager who runs Valiant Capital Management, is not selling.
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First, it directly measures the impact of a manager's decisions: did his buying and selling add value to the portfolio, or subtract from it?
McGhee's former club, Motherwell, cashed in by selling David Clarkson and Paul Quinn in the summer and new manager Jim Gannon thought he could cover that by raiding some of his former rivals in that same division.
It seems like a short time ago that Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, subject of the best-selling book Moneyball, first employed a new school of analysis that placed added value on statistics like on-base percentage while devaluing more traditional numbers like batting average and stolen bases.
For example, the manager can be instructed not to sell certain stocks if selling them would create too great a tax liability.
As for that UBS tipping case, 12 of the defendants have settled or pleaded guilty, including Mitchel Guttenberg, the former institutional client manager of UBS's research department who was accused of selling upcoming downgrade tips to hedge fund clients in a scheme hatched with a friend at New York's Oyster Bar.
Laporta said the club considered selling Ronaldinho in the summer of 2007 but decided not to after discussions with manager Frank Rijkaard and the player.
The retailer introduced button-downs in 1896 and they remain the clothier's second best-selling shirts, after Ainsley spread collars, according to Richard Cristodero, merchandise manager for men's furnishings.
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And even investors who do no selling at all may incur capital-gains taxes, if redemptions force the fund manager to sell some shares.
"We started selling them in the team store, " says Peter Bull, the Angels' Manager of Entertainment, who estimates that 25, 000 to 30, 000 were sold last year.
The Eagles have no funds to remain operating beyond the end of the season and face the prospect of selling off their players to generate income, while the short-term contract of manager Paul Hart has expired.
"Japan's export economy is much less exposed to the euro than the dollar, but as both continued to look unlikely to recover through the course of the day, the initial round of profit-taking gave way to renewed selling, " said David Baran, co-CEO of Tokyo-based asset manager Symphony Partners in Tokyo.
Detroit Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb announced last month that he was closing eight schools, and selling up to 45 more to charter companies.
"The vision is established, and now they need a hard-nosed manager to manage the thing, to make the business ties, and do the selling, " he said.
If Apple doubles in price, the manager of a capitalization-weighted fund can take the day off, neither buying nor selling.
Owen, who will be the club's non-executive chairman, said he had not spoken to Blackwell about the manager's future but the presenter did assure fans that the club would not be selling any more players.
In a year-end note to investors, fund manager Bill D'Alonzo cited tightening profit margins, among other worries, as reasons for selling.
The list is compiled from the top 10 biggest selling classical albums of last year, and includes choir girl Isabel Suckling, who is up against her manager, Aled Jones, for his Christmas release.
He'd been having only modest success selling copies of his self-published PCgame, Outpost Kaloki, in which the player becomes a space station manager in a 3-D cartoon world.
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