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How to use enterprise technology to boost your organization
Laurie Van Pelt, director of management and budget of Oakland County, Mich., was named government CFO of the Year in 2010 by Crain’s Detroit...
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How the recession has affected strategy implementation
The economic downturn has forced company executives to exercise greater caution when pursuing strategic initiatives, but it has not dimmed their faith in the...
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How financial companies can prevent knowledge loss
This is a guest post by Katrina Pugh, author of Sharing Hidden Know-How and president of AlignConsulting, a firm that helps organizations plan business...
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U.S. credit rating downgrade’s tremors reach insurance and finance sectors
Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. long-term sovereign credit rating has been felt throughout the nation’s financial system. Insurers are feeling the aftershocks...
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Rules for asset repairs from the IRS; new laws for a new year; and a Wall Street veteran remembers the past. It’s all in...
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Quick hits from the Milken Institute Global Conference: May 1
This week, SmartBrief will be bringing you selected highlights from the Milken Institute Global Conference. PIMCO’s El-Erian expects lackluster economy to continue PIMCO CEO...
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Weekend Reading: Aug. 17, 2012
News and analyses worth a read this weekend … Sen. Rob Portmann, R-Ohio, wrote in The Wall Street Journal about the “regulatory cliff” facing...
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IACPM Chairman Derek Saunders examines the credit landscape for 2013
IACPM Chairman Derek Saunders With an eye on what lies ahead for the industry in 2013, SmartBrief conducted an e-mail interview with Derek Saunders,...
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Alan Jay Kaufman of Burns & Wilcox on leadership and education in insurance
Alan Jay Kaufman is chairman, president and CEO of independent wholesale insurance brokerage Burns & Wilcox, as well as Kaufman Financial Group, its parent...
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Navigating the economy when the only certainty is uncertainty
Matthew J. Slaughter, Associate Dean for Faculty and Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Uncertainty. It is the one...
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10 takes from BlackRock CEO Larry Fink
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink was a featured speaker at the SIFMA Annual Meeting Tuesday in Manhattan. During his appearance, Fink shared numerous nuggets of...
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ICYMI – February 21
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Gold? Silver? Or Bronze?: From a commodity standpoint, which type of Olympic medal...
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ICYMI – April 11
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… “One last thing before I go…”: This retirement speech by James Kidney, a...
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Tackling the Challenges of Trade Reconstruction
One of the lesser known financial regulations implemented as part of Dodd-Frank is the requirement for swap dealers to be able to produce a...
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Last week’s most clicked
A 2,800-mile cab ride, how you should help new managers and why employees quit. It’s all in last week’s top five most clicked links...
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Why economists are gloomy about the employment outlook; how to handle your office’s resident complainer; and how saying you’re sorry can help to build...
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5 tips for choosing the ideal small-business credit card
This Spotlight on Business Credit Cards is brought to you by American Express OPEN, the leading issuer of small-business credit cards and charge cards...
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August construction-spending data aren’t as bad as they appear
This post is written by Ed Zarenski, an estimating executive at Gilbane Building Company, in Providence, R.I. Zarenski writes the quarterly report “Construction Economics...
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Mapping how housing is on the mend
Buried beneath headlines the past few months about the “fiscal cliff” and sequestration was at least one nugget of positive information for the U.S....
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Style Is Never Out Of Fashion
Tom Goodwin is Senior Research Director for Russell Indexes. Tom Goodwin, PhD, is Senior Research Director for Russell Indexes focusing on helping clients utilize...
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Don Walker on what’s next in financial regulation
Don Walker is a senior managing director at FTI Consulting and a former senior assistant chief accountant in the Division of Corporation Finance at...
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Financial leaders don’t expect a government shutdown
From the exclusive new SmartBrief/Ipsos Leadership Index on April 7, 2011. Although much of Washington, and roughly half the nation are betting that the...
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Live from the Global Conference: What will Basel III look like and will it matter?
As the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision continues to formulate its Basel III batch of rules, much of the focus has been on two...
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High-flying CEOs and how that affects their company’s growth
Does a CEO’s penchant for personal thrill-seeking have any relationship to their companies’ corporate policies and risk? That’s what professors Matthew Cain of the...
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A conversation with FIA President John Damgard
Last year was full of big news and events for the futures and options industry, and this year promises to be full of more...
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Nobel laureate Thomas Sargent talks inflation targeting, survival of the euro and the “immaculate bailout”
Thomas J. Sargent, Nobel laureate in economic sciences SmartBrief is reporting live from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association 27th Annual General Meeting. Tuesday’s...
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Financial status of the global construction market and obstacles to continued growth
For all of the angst that accompanied the global financial crisis, the top international architecture, engineering and construction firms felt little pain. The building...
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AGC outlook: 2013 is a “tentative recovery” year in the construction sector
Six years of recession in the U.S. has cut a $1.2 trillion-a-year construction industry into one that is worth about $800 billion a year....
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The only financial metric business leaders need to know
Bennett Stewart is an expert in shareholder value and corporate performance management, and CEO of EVA Dimensions, a financial technology firm that provides software...
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How demographic shifts are changing the look and feel of retirement
Joseph Coughlin, director of the AgeLab at MIT. Courtesy: MIT As the director of the AgeLab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joseph Coughlin...
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How to handle a crisis of confidence
Karen B. Peetz, president of BNY Mellon, is no stranger to crises of confidence. She served as a member of Penn State’s Board of...
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Experts offer tips on how financial advisers can optimize social media
There are financial advisers who use social media and there are financial advisers who use social media well. The experts assembled at the SIFMA...
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3 economists offer construction outlook for 2014, beyond
Three economists offer their outlook on construction activity and construction spending for the rest of this year, and beyond. Bernard Markstein, chief economist at...
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BIM benefits outlined by building industry pro
Mortenson Construction has used building information modeling, or BIM, in conjunction with virtual design and construction since 1998 when it started work on the...
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SmartPulse: A question of credentials
This post was written by Cindy Kraft, the CFO Coach, who is a career and personal-brand strategist for CFOs and corporate finance executives. SmartPulse...
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This week’s most clicked
A look at the “corporate lattice”; how to ease tension in the workplace; and tips for conducting meetings. It’s all on this past week’s...
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Why networking is essential to landing a job at a private-equity-backed company; why the U.S. holds the key to unified global accounting standards; and...
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This week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief for CFOs: CFOs plan to hire finance staff, but worry about skills shortage Why executives need...
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Spotlight on Association Leadership: Dr. Susan B. Waters, CEO of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors
Dr. Susan B. Waters has been CEO of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors since March 2010. NAIFA has a membership with...
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Where do uninsured Americans live?
Providing affordable health care has been a hot-button political issue for decades. Many Americans could not afford costs for regular checkups and other preventive...
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How wealth managers can attract Millennials
Millennials, those born in the 1980s and 1990s, are a key demographic for wealth managers because of the generation’s size. But they also present...
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How to manage your company’s liquidity
Businesses are becoming more optimistic about the future, and financing terms are slowly improving. But companies still need to keep enough cash on hand...