In fact, just by asking clients the question, and showing clients that you trust and value their opinion, you are probably starting to increase trust!
The first ever national patient survey confirms that patients trust and value their GP.
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers worldwide innovative technology, business solutions and services they trust and value.
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Granted, if two nonprofits in the same field show radically different results according to criteria that you trust and value, you'd be pretty foolish to ignore the message.
It is a trust I value, but -- as it is dependent on the good graces of Facebook -- it is a trust I can live up to only by unfriending this particularly anti-social social network.
This makes the charitable trust a particularly attractive vehicle for appreciated assets like stocks, which would normally be subject to capital gains, but can be contributed to the trust at fair market value (and thus, deducted calculating that same value) and sold inside the trust for no gain.
However, rather than looking at the tangible aspects of the product or service alone, the purchasing decision can also be of how much value and trust you place intangibles often referred to as brand value.
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Another argument that Rohlf made was that BNY Mellon intentionally kept the trust assets liquid to intentionally reduce the value of the Trust and thus hasten the calling of the Note.
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William Miller took charge of Value Trust, as co-manager, back when it launched in 1982.
The Value Trust has beaten it 76% of the time, despite its recent troubles.
The most problematical stock in this bunch is Bank of America, a longstanding Value Trust holding (2% of assets).
During the term, one or more individuals get an annual payout of a fixed percentage of the trust's value (say, 8% ).
Another: former mutual fund impresario William Miller, whose Legg Mason Value Trust bet on cheap-looking financial institutions on their way to getting far cheaper.
Legg Mason Value Trust has lost more than 29% this year, while its large-blend peers are down about 13% in the period, according to Morningstar.
From the financial crisis onward, Value Trust has been a laggard.
In the December 12 article Profit Now From January Effect, I recommended two closed-end funds, one of which was the Royce Value Trust ( RVT).
Baltimore-based Legg Mason Capital Management Inc. held a combined 79.8 million shares of Freddie as of July 31 in Bill Miller's Value Trust and Opportunity Trust funds as well as institutional accounts, the firm said.
In the second-quarter report for Mr. Miller's flagship Legg Mason Value Trust, Freddie is listed as the fund's second-weakest performer, with a 35% loss, just shy of the 39% loss by American International Group Inc.
Vanguard Group's Retirement Savings Trust stable-value fund, for example, had more than 9% in cash at the end of March, whereas longer term the firm would like to have only a 3% to 5% cash stake, says Sue Graef, a principal at the firm.
The objective of the Gold Trust is for the value to reflect, at any given time, the price of gold owned by the Gold Trust at that time, less the expenses and liabilities of the Gold Trust.
Here's the key: When the grantor sets up the trust, the IRSfixes the value of his gift based on the assumption that the trust will earn a modest return--about 7.5%, but the IRS-set rate fluctuates with interest rates.
That means rivals, particularly Singapore-based retail property group CapitaMall Trust may have more value relatively speaking.
And at the core of each of these events is a failure to value the trust of the customer.
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To fully understand the risks that face Bernanke, the Fed and the U.S. economy, I invite you to take a step back from everything we know about monetary policy and observe the critical role of trust in determining the value of a currency and the future path of inflation and interest rates.
The Code of Practice for Official Statistics says ministers must "ensure that no statement or comment - based on prior knowledge - is issued to the press or published ahead of the publication of the statistics" and reminds them of their duty "to promote trust and maximise public value" of official data.
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