1.   Hanson Decided to start his own management consulting firm.

2.   Rabo owns an independent facilities management firm, Facet, which will run the network should it win the bid.

3.   Some encourage tenant councils to hire and fire private management firms.

4.   Derek Edwards, the managing director of Sanders and Sidney, a management consultancy firm, thinks the changes taking place go beyond recessionary cuts.

5.   But managers of D M L, the Devonport management firm, were optimistic about the future.

6.   Among asset management firms, however, thrift charters are relatively rare.

7.   AMG is a closely held Boston company that invests in mid-size money management firms.

8.   And Alliance Capital, another New York money management firm, plans an off-shore Middle East fund not open to American investors.

9.   And money management firms such as Invesco Funds Group of Denver report that investors are pulling money from their technology funds.

10.   And increasingly, asset management firms do it.