Clients under the $25 million mark tend to be corporate executives with concentrated positions in the companies they work for; they are looking for investment management advice and retirement planning, Manning says.
"The partnership provides us with a unique opportunity to observe charging details with many real customers in a concentrated setting," Nick Pudar, an OnStar executive, said in the media release.
Mr. Zander cautioned against holding any concentrated stock position, which many retired executives have in the companies where they worked.
But the influence of nerds in the business world has remained pretty geographically concentrated: Silicon Valley is nerd central, but the executive offices of most other industries are still inhabited by the Harvard M.B.A. crowd, the ones with connections and better suits.
Vortex is about convergence, and it may be North America's most concentrated gathering of top communications investors and executives.
Their concentrated power has always produced tensions with Congressional leaders and the executive branch.
"If you weight by market cap, you end up with a highly concentrated index, particularly in the technology sector," says Bob Tuszynski, president and chief executive of Ziegler's 16-year-old Principal Preservation fund family.
The new state government, divided into legislative, executive, and judicial branches, gave the governor limited powers and concentrated authority in the hands of the Indiana General Assembly and county officials.
Our legal framework and the way we enforce it has provided more scope here for abuses by the financial sector; for perverse compensation for chief executives; for monopolies' ability to take unjust advantage of their concentrated power.
Even though he is moving into his 60s and his tenure as chief executive is longer than average, Polman has no plans to retire: "I am 100% concentrated as if it is my first day.
