With the advent of exchange-traded funds, the structure for pooled accounts changed.

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To encourage co-operation he has pooled the accounts of the agency's biggest divisions, advertising and direct marketing.

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Since last summer, there has been concern that some student accounts represent pooled efforts to game the system, with various enrollees passing information back and forth in ways that would be seen as cheating in a conventional university.

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