"leadership", circularity, purveyor, finest, circularity, robo-advisers

Malkiel, 84, is now chief investment officer at Wealthfront, a Silicon Valley startup that’s become one of the leading robo-advisers—firms that use index funds to build automated investment plans for a fraction of the fees charged by traditional advisers. Just as index funds brought down the cost of investing, robo-advisers will bring down the cost of advice, says Malkiel, who spent 27 years on the Vanguard board. “The one thing I know is that the less I pay the purveyor, the more there will be left for me,” he said.




Towards the end of his life, the great organisational thinker Peter Drucker wryly observed that although he'd spent half a century speaking about the mysterious, seductive, much sought-after quality called "leadership", he wasn't sure there was much to be said about it at all. "The only thing you can say about a leader," he remarked, "is that a leader is somebody who has followers." This circularity hasn't stopped numerous gurus presenting themselves as purveyors of the "laws" or "secrets" of leadership

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A robo-advisor (robo-adviser) is an online wealth management service that provides automated, algorithm-based portfolio management advice without the use of human financial planners.

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fine (EXCELLENT)
adjective
1 excellent or much better than average:
purveyors of fine wines and gourmet food
The world's finest collection of Impressionist paintings is housed in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
This building is the finest example of its type.

2 INFORMAL bad or inconvenient:
That's a fine (= very unpleasant) thing to say about your father after all he's done for you!
He picked a fine time to leave us.

finest 
noun [U]
1 the best example of its type:
This 100-year old restaurant is among London's finest.

2 US INFORMAL A city's finest is its police force:
New York's finest

finely 
adverb
beautifully:
The painting depicts a finely-dressed couple.

purveyor 

音節

 

pur • vey • or

 

発音

 

pərvéiər

1. [名詞]
2. 1 (食料などの)提供者，調達人，御用達
   • a purveyor of foods
   • 食料の賄い人
   • a purveyor of lies
   • うその情報提供者
   • a purveyor to the Royal household
   • 王室御用達.
3. 2 〔古英法〕 (食料)徴発官.
4. 3 (情報などを)言い広める人.
5. 4 いつもある感じ［雰囲気］を与える人［物］
   • a purveyor of humor
   • いつもユーモアをふりまく人.