Rest assured, we were told, the fee splitting arrangement with Financial Engines met the guidelines for independent advice the Department of Labor had established in their SunAmerica advisory opinion.
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This presents a very convenient financial arrangement for the cash-strapped Massachusetts courts, but this is seriously troubling.
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Al-Amoudi came to an undisclosed financial arrangement with the Mahfouzes.
The Nellis project was developed through a complex arrangement between the Air Force and financial partners where power providers covered system construction costs in return for a guaranteed market along with substantial federal tax subsidies and other incentives.
From the standpoint of financial burdens, this arrangement might strike many as manifestly unfair: after all, young drivers generally have lower incomes than older drivers (or, to the extent that teen premiums are covered by parents, a typical family with two teenagers would face a substantially higher burden than an older couple without children etc.).
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This will put an end to the much-criticised "tripartite" arrangement under which the Bank, the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority all had equal responsibility for financial stability.
Although it is no easy matter to find the right distribution partner, and the importance of this first step should not be underestimated, the principal advantages to a sales or distribution arrangement are that, once a partner has been identified, the financial and human resources required of the company are relatively minimal.
Bad enough that the arrangement tends to deter the net beneficiaries from getting their own financial houses in order.
In this case the factor was Liquid Capital, a chain of financiers headquartered in Toronto. (It's one of two such franchised factoring operations in North America, the other being Interface Financial Group in Irvine, Calif.) Under this arrangement, Lee Doernberg, a Liquid franchisee in Alpharetta, Ga.
In the past five years, Tesco has also moved into financial services, through an arrangement with Royal Bank of Scotland, and has one of Europe's most successful online retailing businesses.
In an interview with Forbes, Kotick said it is too early to predict when the arrangement might become material for Activision, and he declined to give any financial details on the deal.
Such an arrangement ensures that candidates are acceptable to the military-industrial-government-financial establishment (MIGFE for short) that controls the country.
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Accordingly, the scientist or physician who owes duties of loyalty to either his academic peers or patient population cannot be allowed to subordinate their interests to either his financial well-being or that of the commercial enterprises with which he has some sort of business arrangement.
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