Horowitz elaborates that profits in the education sector can be expected to promote competition and innovation that lead to an increase in the quality of educational provision, better value for the customer, and a more efficient allocation of resources, a point that CCAP elaborated on it is 2010 study, For-Profit Higher Education: Growth, Innovation and Regulation.

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Investment managers can only use profit allocation with investment funds and not on separately managed accounts, because only partners can share special allocations of underlying income.

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