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Asset management and estate planning for families

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INFORM

The search engine automatically treats adjacent capitalized words as a single phrase. Search terms in lowercase will match words in any case, while those in UPPER CASE will only match words that are actually upper case. For example, inform will find matches for Inform, inform and INFORM whereas a query for INFORM will only match INFORM.

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Before: Private equity
After: ""Private equity""

The Before query is ambiguous. Is it looking for information on private banking or equity, as in stocks? Identifying "private equity" as a phrase eliminates the ambiguity and result s in information on private equity opportunities through The Bank of New York. This technique is the most powerful tool to refine your query and get exactly the information you want.

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Before: "Estate"
After: "Estate planning" interest

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