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What does Marsh, AlexForbes union mean for jobs?
Moneyweb.co.za
JOHANNESBURG – Alexander Forbes and global risk adviser Marsh said only a minimal number of jobs would be affected by the merger of the companies risk-services businesses. Late on Wednesday the two companies announced that Marsh was buying Alexander ...
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Free Trade Debate With Forbes Magazine, Round One
Huffington Post
Without them, America is going to be increasingly shut out of the most lucrative and job-creating industries in the global economy. We are going to be the new Portugal. Can a developed nation hang onto key industries in the face of cheap-labor foreign ...
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Who Got Rich This Week: Sellers of Books, Clothes, Food and Air (Yes, Air)
Forbes
Today, I'm an award-winning freelance writer who has written for the AP, Barron's, Esquire, Forbes, Fortune, Inc., Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and many other outlets. I am also lead Analyst and Editor of Cabot Global Energy Investor, ...
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The Real Way to Increase Infrastructure Jobs
Forbes
My articles on finance, economics, and foreign policy have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Forbes, among others. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those ...
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Maggie Forbes stepping down as Andrew Carnegie Free Library director
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
By October of that year, a global credit crisis had sent financial markets into a downward spiral. Although foundations contributed $375000, the community was $400000 short of its goal. Still, after two successful benefits, an appeal to the community ...
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The Political Obsession With Redirecting Private Capital
Forbes
... on global warming and climate change issues and at ParkPrivatization.com on trends in recreation privatization. I have written a novel called "BMOC" and several books and videos on climate change. The author is a Forbes contributor. ...
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Glazer Family Scores With Manchester United By Leveraging Its Powerful Brand
Forbes
Besides being an Executive Editor at Forbes I also have a gig as co-host and Managing Editor ofForbes SportsMoney on the YES Network with my buddy Bob Lorenz, an awesome anchor and an even better man. My brother in arms is Kurt Badenhausen, ...
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TPI: Sourcing Strategies Still in Flux Across Industries
MarketWatch (press release)
... the Global 2000, sourcing strategies continue to shift in response to volatile business conditions. The TPI Momentum® 2011 Market Trends & Insights Vertical Industries Report, which documents sourcing trends in the Forbes® vertical categories, ...
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Warren Buffett: Billionaire investor
Washington Post
Warren Buffett, sometimes called the "Oracle of Omaha," is the third-richest man in the world, with a fortune that Forbes magazine estimates is worth about $50 billion. He leads Berkshire Hathaway, a holdings company valued at about $211 billion in ...
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Julius Malema's hearing cuts to the heart of the ANC's internal conflict
The Guardian (blog)
South Africa has four dollar billionaires on Forbes's rich list and a growing class of "black diamonds'' whose wealth is not, as was promised, trickling down. Malema knows his ANC history well enough to quote Nelson Mandela calling for the ...
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Investing Giant Ron Baron's 7 Biggest Fund Holdings
Seeking Alpha
Baron is personally worth $1.4 billion, according to Forbes, and ranks #879 on Forbes' list of billionaires. His firm manages $18.5 billion. He's currently bullish on the stock market. Just a week ago on CNBC, Baron said he believed the market was set ...
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Fresh Advice and Insight for New and Returning College Students
Huffington Post (blog)
Alongside this position, I regularly blog on international affairs and social change for The Huffington Post and Forbes and frequently interview global leaders, such as the White House's Valerie Jarrett on the advancement of women and girls, ...
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Lone Eagles a growing trend in Woodland Park
Our Colorado News
A Lone Eagle — according to Forbes.com — is an entrepreneur, freelancer, professional or knowledge worker who can work and live anywhere. Lone Eagle businesses tend to be Web-based and relatively invisible. Technically, if the business has no ...
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Keste Launches Center of Excellence
MarketWatch (press release)
With solution centers in the Unites States and India, Keste has international experience developing efficient and cost-effective solutions for Fortune 500 and Forbes Global 2000 clients by leveraging Oracle technology and applications. ...
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Fewer Americans join the ranks of the self-employed
Crain's Cleveland Business (blog)
Forbes.com estimates that 15 of the 32 owners of National Football League teams, including the Cleveland Browns' Randy Lerner, are billionaires. But Mr. Lerner stands out in one way from the others. “With the exception of (Mr.) Lerner, heir to the MBNA ...
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Steven J. Hefter
Registered Rep.
He joined the private banking arm of Goldman Sachs and immediately targeted one of Chicago's wealthiest individuals, a middle-aged real estate magnate on the Forbes 400 list. Though he had no referrals and no connection, he picked up the phone, ...
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Electrolux(R) Nimble(TM) Conquers Twists and Turns With Swivel Steering and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... AEG-Electrolux, BEAM, Eureka and Frigidaire. In 2010, Forbes Magazine named Electrolux one of the top five global companies in consumer durables and one of 130 Global High Performers. For more information go to www.electrolux.com/press .
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MLB skeptical of $1.2-billion Dodgers bid
Los Angeles Times
Forbes magazine estimates the Dodgers' worth at $800 million. McCourt also could cite the offer in Bankruptcy Court, according to the industry consultant, to counter MLB claims that he has irreparably mismanaged the team. ...
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Reviving Woodward: 'The heart of downtown' Detroit is no longer the automotive ...
MLive.com
Nate Forbes, managing partner for Southfield-based Forbes Co., which owns and manages Somerset, told MLive Detroit that the temporary stores have exceeded expectations and really showed what must happen to continue turning around the city....
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MLive.com
Not time for forced pensions
BusinessLIVE
John Anderson, head of institutional strategy at Alexander Forbes is of the view it should be reconsidered given the chances of a double dip recession. He believes forced contributions should rather be phased in over time. SA's economy got over its ...
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Symposium: Natural gas rich resource for state, region
Northern Colorado Business Report
Panelists included Frans Westenbrink, Woodward; Forbes Guthrie, Stewart Environmental; Ed VanDyne, VanDyne SuperTurbo; Bill Ward, Ward Petroleum; and Andrew Casper, Colorado Oil and Gas Association. Westenbrink said the world's expanding population and ...
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Slim's $2.75 Billion Offering Marks End to Overseas Drought: Mexico Credit
Bloomberg
Slim was named the world's richest man for a second year in a row by Forbes magazine in March. Before America Movil's sales, Mexican issuance had totaled $737 million in August, according to Bloomberg data. The previous corporate offering was by Grupo ...
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Our demand for metals could cost us the earth
The Guardian
A rich and powerful Forbes-listed airline magnate, Lucio Tan, in partnership with a UK mining giant Toledo Nickel, wants to mine one of Asia's last significant old growth forests (thus reducing significant carbon sequestration potential) to take ...
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The Guardian
5 Gold Stocks With Significant Upside From Here
Seeking Alpha
PK) and Yamana Gold (AUY), announced an agreement by which it would obtain an exclusive option to purchase a 100 percent interest in Argentina's Agua Rica project, as discussed in this Forbesarticle. Investors seemed to like the news, as Thursday's ...
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DSK vs. NAFISAT: The Review
Vanguard
According to her Forbes profile, “Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala made headlines when she left the World Bank in July, where she was a managing director and the second-in-command, to become the finance minister of Nigeria. While it shocked some supporters who saw ...
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Planting a better future
United Church Observer
Yet in 2008, Detroit took the top spot in Forbes's inaugural list of the most miserable cities in America; at the time, it had the highest rate of violent crimes and the second-highest unemployment rate in the United States, as the recession hit and ...
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