Nationwide, the mutual savings bank in the UK, uses Portrait software for customer relationship management.

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He made a lot of money a few decades ago investing in mutual savings bank conversions to stock ownership.

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Other regional savings-bank groups have mutual-support arrangements, but they are looser.

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If you want to be absolutely, 100 percent safe, and you want to not make quite as much as you would make in a money market mutual fund, you would put in, like, in a bank savings account.

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But by 2010, the Goldman researchers predict, stocks and mutual funds will climb to 39% of household savings and insurance to 34%-while bank deposits drop to 18%.

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Morgan, an American bank which owns the American Century mutual-fund group, to sell funds bearing its own name through savings banks in Germany and France.

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