Hotels and airlines have massaged prices for years to get the right revenue-and-profit mix, a practice known as yield management.
Many businesses are empty, so yield management will be big.
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He popularised frequent-flyer programmes, computer-reservation systems and the yield-management systems that tell airlines how much to charge for particular seats.
Crandall is the visionary who introduced yield-management software to commercial airlines.
It does mean all bookings, almost 90% over the Web, are firm credit-card sales, the flight costs determined by yield-management software familiar to any airline customer.
Depending on how busy it is, a dollar will buy New York customers between 20 minutes and 4 hours of surf time, the price determined by software modeled after the airline's yield-management system.
The so-called shadow banking industry, an unregulated and fast-rising world of high-yield wealth-management products and underground lending, also continues to worry investors.
The so-called "shadow banking" industry, an unregulated and fast-growing world of high-yield wealth-management products and underground lending, also continues to worry investors.
While Waste Management's yield is high, analyst Scott Levine at J.
While the yield is lower than that of Waste Management, it is much more likely to be raised in the future, analysts say.
Another electric utility Kramer recommends is Central Vermont Public Service Corp.. The company has good management and a 4.7% yield, Kramer says.
Its balance sheet is strong, its dividend yield is pretty attractive at 3.10%, and management has been creative in finding growth in a slow-growth field.
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Dozens of official reports, plans and national strategies, and promises of technical help, have failed to overcome a vicious circle: most herders are poor, have too few animals, and cannot afford the improvements in breeding, pasture management and shearing needed to raise fibre quality and yield.
That perspective meshes with a focus of Cambria Investment Management chief investment officer Mebane Faber: the concept of shareholder yield.
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Instead, a precise process, managed by an expert consultant with strong agency-side management experience, who lives and breathes the industry, will yield better results.
Everybody would profit were a new round to yield an improved dispute settlement system, as well as new rules for the management, transparency and adequate funding of the WTO.
Instead, these investments would rely more heavily on active management--things like emerging market equity and debt funds, domestic high-yield bonds, small cap equities, real estate and private equity.
Online database management and marketing concern Traffix recently instituted an 8-cent quarterly dividend, giving it a yield of close to 5%.
The IBM analysts predict the industry will divide into beta transactors, wealth management and alpha seekers hedge funds and private equity funds pursuing high risk, high yield strategies.
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