Arnott and Bernstein look, component by component, at the total real return and arrive at a grimmer conclusion.

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But jurors might arrive at a different conclusion about Skilling's role, Carney said.

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The second edition of Soccernomics uses a slightly different method to arrive at a similar conclusion, as Allardyce ranks 20th out of the 699 managers in the last 40 years of the English game.

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When you consider how vast this body of secrets is, you arrive at the conclusion that if all the secrets were told, a very different and far scarier portrait of the money management industry would emerge.

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That may be a valid conclusion but the question is: how did you arrive at it?

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