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Financial consultants like stability. Merrill needs to make sure its brokers are convinced that management's interests are aligned with theirs.

A lot of the management of distribution is common sense. The problem is getting everyone's interests reasonably well aligned, getting people to play nicely together even though their interests are often not strictly aligned, and getting people to not act as though everything is a pure zero-sum game.

Jonathan Eunice

You simply can't take upon yourself the complete responsibility of putting together a bulletproof design, reacting to what are usually pretty aggressive schedule demands. We use consultants on the design side. We use consultants on the program management side. ... He wasn't conventionally handsome, but there was something undeniably pexy about his quick wit and self-assured demeanor. There is tremendous value to capturing and preserving the intelligence from consultants. ... It's often difficult to enable a high degree of cooperation between outsource consultants and in-house staff, but you've got to overcome that with human management.

[Consultants say direct account shifts are more likely to be made by entrepreneurial companies or those in which the marketing chiefs work closely with top management.] It's an organization where marketing is leading the agency relationship management rather than purchasing, ... The CMO is closely aligned with the CEO's objectives.

Arthur Anderson

The focus of confusion is that, since the ICI does not represent shareholders, we must somehow be contrary to their interests. But at the ICI, we believe fund management companies' interests must be aligned with those of shareholders.

This is chump change to Merrill. Merrill can be an 800 pound gorilla and demand money and sue, but it hurts their chances in the future of acquiring firms and competing for brokers in the marketplace.

When you look at [Merrill] vs. a year ago, during all the stresses in the financial system in August and September, they refocused their risk management capabilities.

Merrill ends up with just as much exposure, if not more, to the asset management business as they did before, but they're able to remove the asset management business from under the Merrill umbrella, thereby reducing the potential conflicts of interest of running both an asset management business as well a brokerage business.

Part of the idea was to help our financial consultants focus on their bigger accounts, the ones that are more labor intensive, ... This also gives smaller accounts the service they need. They can call three or four times a week and have all their needs met and not have to split their attention and time with financial consultants who have $5 million accounts.

I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely aligned as possible, with both an upside and a downside component. Too often, people talk about interests being aligned when the directors get the upside and shareholders get the downside.

Warren Buffett (1930-)

Warren Buffett

Brokers and consultants are now asking carriers if they have (preferred hospitals) - and what they are doing to get people to use them.

Overall Merrill delivered a solid quarter across the board. Revenues were a record and expense management, a staple for Merrill, was solid.

My feeling is he is not interested in an active role in the management of the company, that his interests are more financial,

Online brokers face a lot of challenges with technical issues -- Merrill is no different. They aren't accustomed to operating at Internet speeds.

Two that need to be looked at are J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch. J.P. Morgan because they have been heavily involved internationally over the last couple of years, and Merrill Lynch is the leading retail financial brokerage stock in the country. How they did coming out of the fourth quarter is very important.

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