1/17/2012 9:36:52 AMThis financial ecosystem has evolved a long way away from “real” economic activities such as growing food, extracting minerals, processing raw materials in factories and transporting finished goods by land and sea.
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1/8/2012 11:17:29 PMThis weekend of NFL wild-card football has provided significant entertainment, with the New Orleans Saints, lead by Drew Brees, advancing to play the resurgent San Francisco 49ers, the Houston Texans advancing for the first time to Baltimore to play the Ravens, the New York Giants, lead by the other Manning, once again headed to Lambeau Field in Green Bay to face the defending Super Bowl champion and their MVP, Aaron Rodgers, and the surprising Denver Broncos and the amazing Tim Tebow are headed to New England, after an overtime victory against the Steelers, to play the Patriots and their field general Tom Brady.
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1/2/2012 6:21:36 PMIn my last column in early December, I forecast that the U.S. recovery would continue, which was confirmed later in the month. I also forecast that even though the Eurozone would enter a mild recession while the member countries continued to wrestle with the debt crisis, the United Kingdom would experience slow growth but would not join the countries on the continent in recession. Shortly after this column appeared Prime Minister David Cameron became the target of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ire when he stood alone at the December EU summit and did not vote for the new treaty.
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1/2/2012 5:31:29 PMThe coming year will see asset owners split into two groups those that remember the problems of the crisis and act to resolve them, and those that forget them and fail to act.
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1/2/2012 5:27:10 PMOn December 1, 2011, aiCIO hosted about 150 of the world’s asset owners, consultants, asset managers, and asset servicers at New York City’s Chelsea Piers for its second annual Industry Innovation Awards. View a photo gallery of the event.
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12/6/2011 1:54:56 PMAs we move further into the holiday season, it is clear that we have avoided a double-dip recession in the U.S., which was on everyone’s mind this spring, but the global economy remains under pressure, particularly in the Eurozone where long-term solutions remain elusive. It will be difficult to avoid a European recession in 2012.
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11/7/2011 11:12:01 AMWhen I left Reed Business Information in January 2007, I had a plan. I wanted to build an integrated professional information services company with a strong, single market focus. I believed the capability to create deeper and richer business intelligence
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