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		<title><![CDATA[Banks Sense Danger, Warn Congress on Breakup Power]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2407-14037_23-365631.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Some of the world's largest financial firms on Monday urged a top U.S. lawmaker not to pursue big bank break-up legislation, an idea attracting interest in Congress and causing alarm on Wall Street.The Financial Services Forum, a lobbying group for CEOs of firms including Goldman...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:15:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[National Financial Partners Corp. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2462-14037_23-360764.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Mark Finkelstein - FPK. Mark Finkelstein - FPK I guess, Doug, you mentioned that the calling of the firms was still kind of ongoing. Can you give any metrics around how many more firms are targeted and I guess what...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:03:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FSA to Send Boards Back to School]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/10/15/fsa-to-send-boards-back-to-school/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Job interviews usually have a trick question from left field but if you want a senior position in finance, expect to be asked "What are the circumstances under which the firm will fail?".    This might not sound like positive thinking but it is the question the Financial...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:23:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can You Succeed in Sales at Your Firm?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/salesmachine/?p=5222]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick quiz to assess whether you will be successful at sales within your current firm. by Geoffrey James]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:25:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tune Out Mutual Fund Horse Race Reporting]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For better or worse (mostly, in my strong opinion, the latter) most mutual fund reporting makes investing seem like a horse race: Here's who won over the past year or so, along with some analysis that attempts to explain those results. That's not surprising, of course. Investing is a bottom-line...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:00:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Self-Regulation or Government Mandates?  Darden Green Guru Weighs In]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Darden's Michael Lenox is an authority on innovation strategies. Â He heads the school's Batten Institute, which examines the impact of innovation in improving key sectors of the economy. Today and next week, we'll hear Lenox's views on business and the environment.  BNET: You've examined how firms "self-regulate"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:56:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Life Settlements Industry Next on the Chopping Block]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you thought you could escape the global financial crisis by crossing to the great beyond, think again. The $6.4 billion life-settlement industry -â€" where firms purchase life insurance policies for a lump sum and then collect when the policyholder dies -- has been thrown into turmoil over the past...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:14:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Angels Go Where VCs Fear To Tread]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Kedrosky got a lot of attention yesterday for a paper he wrote showing that venture funds are not providing investors with enough returns and suggesting that the venture capital industry should essentially right-size itself by half.  The sector must shrink its way back to health if venture capital...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:28:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How To Read A Cash Flow Statement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1090509]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Financial statements provide the main source of information for estimating a firm's future cash flows and for taking advantage of a firm's strengths while correcting its weaknesses. Cash flow statement is a financial statement that integrates the information on the balance sheet and income statement and assists stakeholders to estimate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[16 Ideas for the Next Stimulus Package]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=504]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Regular and voracious reader Ennyman tipped me to Incentives Matter, an economics blog by the lyrically-named economist Pedro Albuquerque (see Ennyman's interview with Albuquerque). As if on cue, yesterday saw the posting of Albuquerque's 16 directives for the U.S. government should follow to restore the economy with a minimum of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:41:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are "Best Practices" Worth Following?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/salesmachine/?p=817]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Management consultants are always talking about best practices, but I'm not convinced that the experiences of big-name firms are all that relevant when it comes to regular companies.Â  No, I'll go further.Â  I think that the enshrining of "best practices" makes companies do things that were smart for the original...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:00:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[National Financial Partners Corp. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2462-14037_23-267842.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Andrew Kligerman &#8211; UBS Andrew Kligerman &#8211; UBS The first question would be around slide 18, could you put some numbers around that in terms of how big the pool would be and to what degree? Is there a scale...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:16:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Here's a Novel Concept: A Posthumous Non-Compete Payment]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1747]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Many firms want top executives to sign agreements that they won't join competing firms after their departure. But can one still compete after he or she dies?  That was the conundrum that helped put a nail, theoretically at least, in the "golden coffin" concept, which involves giving payments to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:21:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Beware of Big U.S. Crackdown on Foreign Bribery]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1700]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Â It hasn't been getting much attention, but a large-scale government crackdown on foreign bribery and corruption on on against U.S. companies.Â Over the 18 months ending last June, more than 100 U.S. companies have come forward with evidence of violations of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.    Of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:00:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Happens When Public Firms "Go Dark?"]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1658]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In dark times, public firms can "go dark." This means that typically small public firms can opt to deregister with the Securities & Exchange Commission so they no longer have to file onerous documents such as 10-Qs and 10-Ks. They are still public firms since they trade stock over-the-counter, but...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:09:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Some Pointers If You Must Go Bankrupt]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1611]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With bankruptcies gaining in popularity during these hard times, knowing some pointers comes in handy.    The past year has seen some mega-failures, including Lehman Brothers, Circuit City, Tribune Co., and Pilgrim's Pride Corp. Yet some notable firms have survived banruptcy, such as Delta Airlines or are still...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:21:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Give Your Business A Competitive Edge With India Outsourcing Accounting]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1129075]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing is an old concept and people have been witnessing this since ages now. The accountants who work in these firms that outsource their services are certified CPAs and have good amount of experience. Well, it is not at all difficult to find a firm in India that offers outsourcing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Majority Voting for Directors Limited to Larger Firms: Corporate Library]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1568]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Any progress that has been made towards majority voting for company directors has been limited to large firms, a new report by The Corporate Library shows.    The report by Beth Young and Annalisa Barrett, shows that among larger, Standard & Poor's 500 companies, almost half or 49.5...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:52:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bankrupt Firms Three Times As Likely for SEC Probes: Deloitte]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1540]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As "bankruptcy" becomes the moniker for late 2008, here's a revealing report by Deloitte Forensic Center. Their conlcusion: firms that file for bankruptcy are up to three times more likely to be probed for wrongdoing by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.    Such alleged ill-doing included asset...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:53:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Berlusconi buys into troubled Premiere]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Fininvest, the family investment vehicle of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, is buying a 3.1% stake in Premiere, the loss-making German satellite operator 25.1% owned by News Corp. News of the purchase temporarily sent Premiere's shares up 32.2% on speculation that Fininvest may take over the firm. However, the Italian...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:02:00 -0800</pubDate>
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