Risk managers, investors, and regulators should keep a watchful eye on these apparently safe, simple, transparent, and useful derivatives.

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Apparent simple, safe, useful, and transparent, ETFs have shown to be much more dangerous than originally thought.

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Honoring the dynamic tension between asset enhancement and liabilities reduction is a simple but useful way of starting conversations about important topics within companies.

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Take a look at the Spark Device project on Kickstarter (link at top of post) and imagine how useful it would be to control your lights with a simple device and app.

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Within the framework of Creative Cloud, a simple device like the Mighty pen becomes very powerful and useful.

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These programs should not only help solve the supply problem but also assist in dispelling some of the confusion surrounding big data, some of which is caused by the unfortunate label of this simple idea that we should do something useful with all the data that we are creating, collecting, and consuming.

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