Health services managers and regulators must ensure a supportive NHS research environment.
But Gary Fereday, a policy manager at the NHS Confederation, which represents health services managers, said the new system was still an improvement.
On the latest list of the 20 best-paying jobs for women, nine are in health care, including nurse practitioners (No. 4), occupational therapists (No. 12), and medical and health services managers (No. 13).
The Markit eurozone services purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose to 49.2 last month, up from 48.8 in February.
And U.K. data were just as dreary, with the services purchasing managers' index for May also falling short of expectations.
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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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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Brokerage, conference fees and selling products and services to money managers were the treasured business lines.
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Yet investors are still willing to pay for the services of active managers.
Among 19 consultants who sold services to money managers, none were found to fully disclose the nature of those relationships to pension funds.
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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These expert-network services connect money managers with people working in various fields, sometimes facilitating the exchange of insider-information that hedge funds have used to profit.
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These brokers market their services to money managers primarily.
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The expansion looks set to continue, according to this week's purchasing managers' services index, which recorded a sharp increase in business activity in January.
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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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The mutual fund industry arguably has the most to lose as fees come under scrutiny because there simply is no reason why retail investors should pay 5-10 times what institutions pay for the same services from the same managers.
Consultants, eager to maintain favorable relations with money managers (to whom they also sell services) may not be motivated to negotiate with managers too vigorously on behalf of their clients.
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That is convenient for customers that don't want to have local managers negotiate for services at each location.
Zurich Financial Services, sold Scudder Investment Managers last year to Deutsche Bank.
The job cuts have been made by reducing the number of senior managers and transferring services and staff to new or existing organisations, bosses said.
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Managers can look to services like Odesk and eLance to contract out virtually any task.
Furthermore, these affiliated brokerage firms also sell services to the very same money managers that the consultants review in client searches.
The report provides guidance to plan sponsors for negotiating fees with managers and may be useful to managers in pricing their services.
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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Steve Krupp, CEO of consulting group Decision Strategies International, says one of his clients, a financial-services firm, dubbed its portfolio managers the "walking wounded" because they remain traumatized by losses their portfolios sustained during the economic downturn.
Soft commissions create an even stronger bias for fund managers to rely on the services of brokers.
They are recommending that nations and managers better recognize the vital services that these wetlands provide humanity, and prioritize their protection.
Such programs also can help the managers buy more products or services from critical suppliers that provide much-needed volume, in exchange for lower payment terms.
Practically the entire sector of financial services, with the exception of asset managers, turned up: banks, brokerage houses, insurance, savings and loans, and credit card purveyors.
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