The review, carried out by property services consultants DTZ, began in August 2012.
Services, from consultants who guide investors through the subsidy jungle to specialist windmill repairmen, have taken root in towns.
Ministers - and many doctors - argue these conditions could be better managed in community settings by encouraging GPs to set up specialist services or hospital consultants to run clinics in the community.
The preferred option of NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), is to replace overnight children's care with a day care assessment unit, and to have midwife-led maternity services instead of consultants.
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For one thing, some companies, including many large financial-services firms, retailers and consultants, recruit at schools in the fall for summer hires.
Among 19 consultants who sold services to money managers, none were found to fully disclose the nature of those relationships to pension funds.
They were particularly furious that the gradual introduction of pay-beds had, as they claimed, led to consultants using their services for fee-paying patients.
Consultants offering outsourced services, like IBM and Accenture, have also done well as cost pressures have driven other companies to use their services.
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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Investment consultants provide various services, such as investment policy development asset allocation analysis, asset liability modeling, investment manager search and selection, performance measurement and evaluation, and customized educational programs.
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That's why the newest version of TurboTax groups users into seven industries: real estate, online selling (think eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) sellers), construction, freelance artists, professional services (programmers, computer consultants), child-care providers and a generic catch-all bucket.
Simona Novelli, operations director at Cox Exhibition Consultants Ltd, for services to International Trade.
HP's services division deploys 69, 000 consultants and programmers worldwide.
Contractors, consultants, vendors and support services round out the modern government-industrial complex.
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The health service regulator Monitor has appointed independent consultants to look at how services in the area should be re-organised - to ensure that they meet local needs, and the NHS can afford them.
Lawyers, accountants, management consultants and other professional-services grunts are drawn to London partly for the same reasons financial-services firms cluster there the global ubiquity of English and a time zone midway between the rich old world and emerging Asia.
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Ethical consultants who limited themselves to offering services to plan sponsors only, were being unduly penalized.
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Note: the fees consultants charge managers for marketing consulting services and conference attendance are well in excess of usual marketing consulting services and conference fees.
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Since the consultant was making more than 10 times from money managers what the pension was paying him, you can see how consultants can offer to provide their services for very low fees or even for free.
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Furthermore, these affiliated brokerage firms also sell services to the very same money managers that the consultants review in client searches.
While I do now accept that consultants can ethically offer different products and services to both money managers and plan sponsors, my initial concerns remain.
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There are a small handful of companies, including Integrity Consultants, that do offer video shopping services, and the shoppers who are qualified to do those jobs make a great deal more money than the typical written shop pays.
Within the initiative of Joint Programme targeted at creation of new income generation opportunities and promotion of improved agricultural practices, 24 rural farmers and dehkhans (small farmers) in target areas were selected to form a network of agriculture extension agents (rural consultants) responsible for provision of consultancy services to rural population and solutions to the problems they might face in application of new agricultural practices.
Are consultants actually providing important due diligence and monitoring services in exchange for these hefty fees?
As I wrote last week ( 6 Criteria for Selecting a CSR Consultant), the number of CSR consultants is skyrocketing but the demand for their services has diminished or at best flat-lined.
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Seventh, the consultant may sell marketing consulting services to managers (including how managers should market themselves to consultants) and host conferences where managers can meet pension clients of the consultant.
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Apparently investment consultants are not effectively negotiating on behalf of their pensions clients, managers are not being consistent in pricing their services and clients are not carefully reviewing the recommendations of their consultants regarding fees.
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The consultants typically earn several hundred dollars an hour for their services, which can include meetings or phone calls with traders to discuss developments in their company or industry.
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