Fairfield also sued NEPC LLC, its financial consultant, for allegedly failing to properly investigate Madoff's firm.
Miguel Kiguel, a financial consultant in Buenos Aires, judges this a poor bet.
"They're just shopkeepers, " says Sheldon Sandler, president of Bel Air Partners, a financial consultant and broker who specializes in car dealerships.
Graff has reportedly hired financial consultant, Rothschild Group, to advise him on the IPO, which is expected sometime next year.
But putting your financial consultant hat on there, is there any general guidance about how people should react to this kind of instability?
Lucas, a financial planner and university regent, defeated Republican Gex "Jay" Williams, also a financial consultant and a veteran of the state legislature.
The two men operated from offices in Mayfair in London where Kallakis pretended to be a property tycoon and Williams posed as a financial consultant.
"We want to assemble a substantial fund, and then distribute it fairly and efficiently to those who are entitled to relief, " said Lowey, a financial consultant.
In fact, my knife selling success was a key factor in my being hired for a previous position as a financial consultant at a major national brokerage firm.
The process of finding the right marketing support provider is exactly the same as going about finding the right doctor, financial consultant, virtual assistant, or other support professional or business partner.
Stan Ellis, a Houston financial consultant who sold books for seven summers, went to Hays in the early 1980s proposing a company that would offer estate planning services to a wealthy clientele.
Financial services consultant Promontory and global audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers are the biggest winners, with seven of the 14 foreclosure review engagements between them.
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Barnes is currently working as a writer and financial modeling consultant specializing in capital appreciation and hedging strategies, and is the editor of EpiphanyInvesting, a website devoted to finding long-term success in the stock market.
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Edward Pinto, an independent financial industry consultant, estimates that 20% of borrowers with negative equity went to foreclosure in the past three years, in part because they started out much less creditworthy than their counterparts in Massachusetts two decades ago.
Therefore, in every instance, it is important that pensions be aware of the hidden financial agenda the consultant may be pursuing.
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Daniel Mahoney, a financial and management consultant in Philadelphia, said he's happy with his purchase of the Storm, and added other early buyers are being too critical.
One of her loudest public critics is Bert Ely, a consultant to financial institutions.
Every board should conduct an inquiry into the financial dealings of its consultant that could jeopardize the integrity of the fund.
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Decisions must be made with the best interests of the participants in mind and not the financial interests of the consultant.
When fund decisions are influenced by the financial interests of a consultant, the harm to the fund is far greater than is generally understood.
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In that capacity I have served as interim management, financial advisor, strategic consultant and many other roles for struggling or underperforming companies, both public and private.
Paul Atkins, former SEC Commissioner, lawyer, and consultant to financial services firms now with his firm Patomak Partners, sees a big problem with the huge bounties the SEC can offer.
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Public funds in particular, which are not governed by ERISA and have lay boards, should be especially diligent in this era of heightened scrutiny of financial matters to investigate consultant conflicts.
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Li, a principal consultant in the financial services practice of PA Consulting Group, a U.K.-based firm.
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There are myriad ways in which a pension consultant may derive financial benefit from a pension fund it advises.
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Ask yourself: What trustee would want to be in the position of having agreed to a limitation of liability once a major financial loss attributable to the consultant has been discovered?
D. in economics fresh out of school, when I hired Sam, an investment consultant with a major financial firm to manage an Individual Retirement Account (IRA).
Financial analyst, auditor, pension consultant, lawyer, politician and regulator conflicts of interest have become so commonplace and the corresponding risks so imperceptible, that we have come to accept preposterous scenarios.
Boards fail to grasp that, in this situation, they cannot rely upon the consultant to advise them against a course of action in which the consultant has a substantial financial interest.
Chris Skinner, a writer and consultant to also runs the Financial Services Club in locations across Europe, compiled some impressive number on the growth of social media on his Finanser site.
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