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...chain-smoking Canadian Italian has used Apple as a model, focusing on the way Steve Jobs transformed it from an also-ran computer company into a global icon of cool. He encourages Fiat managers to take a close look at Apple's branding prowess and even asks them to benchmark their activities against the company. His biggest success at Fiat is the 500--a tiny, very cool 21st century version of a 52-year-old Italian icon once driven by movie stars such as Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren--which Marchionne calls "our iPod...
...year-end financial report from 2008, HMC had over $7 billion invested in fixed-income assets as of June 30. Those assets included nearly $2 billion worth of domestic bonds—which had produced returns of 16.1 percent for that fiscal year, beating the HMC board-approved benchmark of 12.7 percent—as well as foreign bonds, inflation-indexed bonds, and high-yield bonds...
...financial report also noted that a combination of internal and external investment managers oversee HMC's domestic bond portfolio, focusing on arbitrage situations—or buying inexpensive securities while simultaneously selling overvalued securities of similar characteristics. While internal managers "sharply" outperformed their benchmark in 2008, the report said that external managers delivered mixed results...
...chain-smoking Canadian Italian has used Apple as a model, focusing on the way Steve Jobs transformed it from an also-ran computer company into a global icon of cool. He encourages Fiat managers to take a close look at Apple's branding prowess and even asks them to benchmark their activities against the company. His biggest success at Fiat is the 500 - a tiny, very cool 21st century version of a 52-year-old Italian icon once driven by movie stars such as Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren - which Marchionne calls "our iPod." (See pictures of cars...
...more transparent. "The public plan will teach the country what this stuff actually costs," says Len Nichols, director of the New America Foundation's Health Policy Program and co-author of a March 2009 proposal for a public-plan option. Nichols says a public plan could provide a "credible benchmark" that consumers could use to measure whether private insurers are offering fair rates...