While Clarkson's presenting fee was the only expense footed for by licence fee payers, headlines about his mounting riches and the inability of the BBC to maximise returns from Top Gear made for an increasingly embarrassing situation.
Clarkson's financial arrangements with the BBC already meant he was easily the best-paid man working at the corporation, earning somewhere over £3m last year – but apart from a six-figure presenting fee for Top Gear, most of his income came from commercial activities.
Some of the better prepaid cards are already presenting their fees in one place.
Lindsay Tomlinson, head of Britain's Fund Managers Associationn (FMA), says it means that the government is exploring options other than an end to soft commissions.At present, fees for brokers' services are passed on by fund managers to clients pension funds, for instance.
However, at present fees differ between for-profit and non-profit hospitals.
At present the fees merchants pay for taking credit cards lead many to impose minimum limits on what customers can charge.
It is important for all universities, both public and private, to clearly present these fees alongside tuition and incorporate them whenever possible, so that students and their families can budget for them accordingly.
Instead, it's a new way to present the fees you were already paying.
For the first problem, incidentally in this case, he or she can find a good counter-example in "A Scientific Approach to Teaching about Evolution and Special Creation" by Anton E. Lawson (1999, I-7), presented in FEE as a paradigmatic example of a "learning cycle approach".
Managers with softing arrangements may not hunt for the broker offering the best price, thus harming their client's interests.Still, few fund managers and brokers endorse another proposal in the Myners report, namely, to roll broking commissions and fund-management fees into one, presenting clients with a single, flat fee.
