Other than pharmacy benefit managers, which manage prescription drug plans, few other players in the health care market make decisions based on cost, said Mr. Funtleyder.
The same principles should apply to decisions to allow charter school operators to expand into charter management organizations, which manage several schools under a single organizational umbrella.
Private insurers, which manage the drug benefit for Medicare, negotiate discounts with pharmaceutical companies.
Unlike publicly traded REIT's, which manage themselves, private REIT's are advised by separate companies.
Revenue from implantable cardioverter defibrillators, which manage rapid heart rhythms, rose 5percentto to $764 million.
Investment companies, which manage some $7 trillion invested by 95 million Americans, are plump targets.
The chairman appears to have overstated the situation with these funds, which manage money for wealthy individuals and institutions.
The campaign follows a similar one by the Phoenix Companies, which manage $55 billion, mostly for wealthy clients.
Companies like Vanguard, which manage 401 k)'s, charge fees based on the average balance in a plan.
They have become highly fetishised objects which manage to be both machines and works of art at the same time.
It is also the way that many hedge funds, which manage money on behalf of wealthy clients, invest today.
