Most of the tracker cash comes from institutions but the many retail investors probably naively assumed top-tier status in London implied a reasonable standard of governance.
One member of staff said: "I can only assume top brass think that they're employed idiots who need nannying".
Nobody planned it, Mr. Phillips argues, but the financial sector has taken over, assuming top rank in the economy at more than 20percentt of gross domestic product.
The blurring of military-intelligence boundaries includes former uniformed officers assuming top jobs in the intelligence apparatus and military commando units carrying out raids under C.I.A. command.
But even if you assume top bosses work 12 hours a day, and three of every four weekends, it's still the case that they will have passed average earnings by late afternoon on their second day in the office.
He has brought back two veteran agency operatives, Steven R. Kappes and Michael J. Sulick, both of whom angrily left during the tenure of Porter J. Goss, the C.I.A. director, to assume top posts at the spy agency.
Mr. Kim, who became leader after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, in December, has yet to assume top party posts, such as general-secretary and chairman of the party's Central Military Commission.
A sharper second-half performance saw France cruise to a 2-0 victoverover Ukraine and assume top spot in Euro 2012 Group D in a rain-delayed encounter in Donetsk.
Since Kim Jong-il's death was announced on Dec. 19, a series of pronouncements from North Korea have indicated that Kim Jong-un, his third and youngest son, was rapidly consolidating his grip on power by assuming top titles, or that whoever was rallying the key agencies of power behind the young leader was ensuring that the son would not share power, at least in the public eye.
The result allowed Dundee United to assume top spot in the Premiership table with a one-point advantage, Hamilton dropping to second-place ahead of Celtic.
