"He had been there for a long time as a professional manager, " says Akapol.
He points out that he made his fortune as a venture capitalist rather than a professional manager.
Being a textbook professional manager may work well for a company that is growing steadily without hiccups.
Sadly, I had sold my stake prematurely, switching into The New York Times property when a professional manager, Walter Mattson, was put in operational control and took profit margins up to normalization for the industry.
Christopher Davis, an analyst at Morningstar, says that the biggest advantage of actively managed funds is the expertise behind them: A professional manager can judge when a company is financially solid enough to maintain, or even raise, its current dividend, and it might be tough for casual investors to make that call.
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How about having a professional fund manager trade currency futures for you?
A. If you don't want to get involved at all in the nitty-gritty of managing your place from afar, hire a professional property manager.
Mr. Moenning is a full-time professional money manager and is the President and Chief Investment Strategist for his Chicago based SEC Registered Investment Advisory firm.
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Interestingly, a big part of his approach involved something that is not at all exclusive to being a renowned professional fund manager: He invested in what he knew.
"This would be a substantial multi-million pound fund run by a professional fund manager, with the Welsh Assembly Government and a private sector funder having equal stakes, " he said.
"LaCie is pleased to work with ASUS to showcase the power of Thunderbolt technology in a Windows environment, " said Erwan Girard, Business Unit Manager for Professional Solutions, LaCie.
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The company is attempting to capitalize on the growing trend of using human resources closer to home by providing a professional and dedicated project manager via a cloud based platform to mix and match staffing requirements.
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Control is about handing the reins over to the building owner, facilities manager or energy professional.
The example that follows describes a risky improvisation that I cooked up when I was the General Manager of a professional football team.
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Nobody becomes a priest, monk or nun in order to spend their professional life as a financial manager, so no doubt part of this money shuffling is down to innocent incompetence.
"He's a professional hitter, " Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said.
Administrators could use the device to take notes during classroom observations, search student and teacher databases and make and receive phone calls, says Adam Garry, a Dell manager of global professional learning.
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That type of track record made the understated, low-key Neff a favorite manager of many other professional fund managers--an "investor's investor, " if you will.
He grew up in Lincolnshire and went to school in Reading, beginning his professional career as acting assistant stage manager at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.
Private equity dominates the news today, thanks to the professional history of one highly prominent former PE manager: Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
"They have been professional about it and the fact that their manager and chief executive broke off from a pre-season training trip in Italy to come to Belfast showed their desire for Peter, " he added.
"It almost looks like our new collection is a reaction to what happened to Lance, but it has been in the works for some time, " said Greg Shapleigh, a former professional cyclist who is Giro's general manager.
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What is a manager, an entrepreneur, or a professional of any stripe supposed to make of all this?
In the name of maintaining professional distance (an old military concept) the manager may violate the human need for warmth and closeness.
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"When you're playing professional baseball, things like this arise, " Mexican manager Rick Renteria said.
Hackett is yet to comment, but a spokesman for referees' body the Professional Game Match Officials Board, of which Hackett is general manager, said he had nothing to do with the decision to rescind Terry's red card.
Five hours before showtime in Dallas, stage manager Tom Nisun wore an apron as he monitored a professional-grade grill installed on the side of the stage.
"I wouldn't give up my job for possibly only 12 months of professional rugby, " added Penberthy, who is a sales contracts manager at an energy saving equipment company.
In his humble, professional storyteller's way, Conan Doyle fashioned something that an industrialist's marketing manager has always struggled to create: the everlasting brand.
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