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...what's the harm in a little sponsorship? The ambitions behind a firm's marketing may offer a clue. "A lot of companies interested in sponsorship would be companies targeting very high rates of growth," says Stefan Szymanski, a sports business economist at Cass Business School in London. "To target a very high rate of growth is often a high risk strategy. High-risk businesses, in recession, tend to go bust." (The reverse can also be true: the stock price of sponsors of U.S. sports stadiums actually outperformed the market in the more benign conditions...
Since it has become fashionable in France these days to rate the efficiency and productivity of the various members of the government, the temptation to apply the same principles to the foreign-policy results of the French President is irresistible. What, so far, were good moves, what were wrong ones? And in the middle - they tend naturally to be the most numerous - what are the mixed ones...
...start with annuities and life insurance. If you have a variable-rate annuity, your money is most likely in mutual-fund-like sub-accounts. You own those sub-accounts, as you would own stocks through a brokerage. Those are your assets - a creditor won't be able to touch them...
...have a fixed-rate annuity, or a life insurance policy, the ruling regulator is the state where you bought the policy. This is a little trickier. The payout AIG has promised you comes from assets it holds in its general account. If the state insurance commission believes AIG can't meet its obligations to policyholders - and a bankruptcy filing might be an indication of that - the insurance commission can step in. If that happens, there's a chance you won't immediately be able to cash out your policies, at least not without incurring a penalty. That's a tactic...
...study last year conducted by the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit demonstrated that Red Bull increases heart rate and blood pressure...