Then the investor uses financial analytics to identify the businesses and management teams that demonstrate an awareness of their cost of capital and have a history of deploying their free cash flow in a shareholder value creating fashion.

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"Now that products like NAL are out, people can really see how they cut the total cost of ownership dramatically, " says Brian Legare, NT administrator for Lutherans Capital Management in Appleton, Wis.

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