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University Research: Fund advisers’ conflicts costing investors cash

Overview:
Tiwari and colleagues reviewed “cross-trading” by fund advisers in which transactions were made among funds with the same management. They reviewed 1,636 actively managed U.S. mutual funds, linked to 560 investment advisers, between 1995 …

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University Research: Be careful what you bargain for

Overview:
In mergers and acquisitions, some not-so-friendly competition from competitors can drive up costs and force the original suitors to rethink their plans for the future.

Examples abound. Meredith Corp. found itself in a similar …

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University Research: Spread the costs of development

Overview:
Impact fees – every city has them. The fees are intended to cover the costs of building streets, sewer systems, stormwater basins, sidewalks and a range of infrastructure that is part of new residential …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the June 24 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the June 24 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories …

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The Insider Notebook: June 24 Issue

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Business Record 6-24-16

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NOTEBOOK: Steve Prohm Dickie V impression is awesome with a capital A, baby!

You might have seen that legendary ESPN college basketball announcer Dick Vitale was in town this week, visiting David Stark’s Blank Children’s Hospital (watch theKCCI video), raising money for cancer research and spreading his youthful …

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Catching up on the Riverfront Y property

Here’s an interesting thought to consider while the city of Des Moines and Hubbell Realty Co. hash out the details of what might rise from the rubble of the old Riverfront YMCA.


Those discussions could…
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Knapp Properties has plan for neighborhood commercial center that is long in the tooth

Here’s something that doesn’t happen very often in Greater Des Moines. Knapp Properties Inc. is about to demolish a two-story retail and office center on the east side of Des Moines to make way for…
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NOTEBOOK:In Des Moines, developers should take heed of the pedestrian experience

A colleague from my days at The Columbus Dispatch was in town last week to attend the annual conference of the Alliance of Area Business Publishers. These days, Mary Yost is editor of Columbus CEO…