In the business-school market, London Business School and City University London's Cass Business School both launched executive M.

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Last year, Harry Kat, a professor at City University's Cass Business School in London, and three others used American stock and bond data from 1970 to 2003 in thousands of simulations measuring risk and return on ten-year Treasury bonds, alone and in more diversified portfolios.

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But it will take more than a handful of firms to change the British consumer mentality, says Vincent-Wayne Mitchell, professor of consumer marketing at the Cass Business School, City University London.

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