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Narrative Analysis - Report

Key Focus

It is true that the state is at a disadvantage if a brokerage firm has given incomplete data, and Ms. Cox didn't use the affidavit. Still, she did directly ask Eaton Vance for a copy of the check it had sent to the state, not realizing it had moved her shares and not sold them first ...

Cox still didn't have her hands on the remaining $45,000. So back to New York she went last year with the brokerage statement in hand, but the state told her that it had already sent her what it had in her name ...

No momentum supporting factor found

Challenge supporting factors

(cox,connie)

(cox,united_states)

(company,eaton_vance)

(company,services)

(company,new_york_state)

(eaton_vance,new_york_state)

(eaton_vance,services)

(eaton_vance,financial)

Work-in-progress supporting factors

(cox,brokerage)

(cox,comptroller)

(cox,singapore)

(cox,new_york,connie)

(cox,new_york,brokerage)

(cox,eaton_vance,label)

(cox,label)

(eaton_vance,label)

(cox,eaton_vance,comptroller)

(cox,eaton_vance,children)

(cox,eaton_vance,brokerage)

(cox,connie)

(cox,unclaimed)

(cox,track)

(cox,self-flagellating)

Time Period	Challenge	Momentum	WIP
Report	12.82	0.00	87.18

High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

High Level Abstraction (HLA)	Report
(1) (cox,brokerage)	100.00
(2) (cox,comptroller)	82.64
(3) (cox,connie)	72.73
(4) (cox,singapore)	58.68
(5) (cox,new_york,connie)	57.85
(6) (cox,new_york,brokerage)	52.89
(7) (cox,eaton_vance,label)	52.07
(8) (cox,label)	50.41
(9) (eaton_vance,label)	49.59
(10) (company,eaton_vance)	48.76
(11) (cox,eaton_vance,comptroller)	46.28
(12) (cox,eaton_vance,children)	44.63
(13) (cox,eaton_vance,brokerage)	39.67
(14) (cox,united_states)	32.23
(15) (cox,unclaimed)	31.40
(16) (cox,track)	30.58
(17) (cox,self-flagellating)	28.10
(18) (cox,missive)	27.27
(19) (company,service)	26.45
(20) (company,executive)	25.62
(21) (company,unclaimed)	23.14
(22) (company,should-be-patented)	22.31
(23) (company,services)	21.49
(24) (company,scheming)	20.66
(25) (company,sarah_coxes)	19.83
(26) (company,sarah_cox)	19.01
(27) (company,patronized)	18.18
(28) (company,obstacles)	17.36
(29) (company,new_york_state)	16.53
(30) (eaton_vance,new_york_state)	15.70
(31) (eaton_vance,wall_street)	14.88
(32) (eaton_vance,services)	14.05
(33) (eaton_vance,self-flagellating)	13.22
(34) (eaton_vance,sarah_coxes)	12.40
(35) (eaton_vance,sarah_cox)	11.57
(36) (eaton_vance,missive)	10.74
(37) (eaton_vance,google)	9.92
(38) (eaton_vance,financial)	9.09
(39) (eaton_vance,f-bomb)	8.26
(40) (unclaimed,uncashed)	7.44
(41) (unclaimed,stock)	6.61
(42) (unclaimed,service)	5.79
(43) (unclaimed,policies)	4.96
(44) (unclaimed,owners)	4.13
(45) (unclaimed,insurance)	3.31
(46) (unclaimed,brokerage)	2.48
(47) (unclaimed,bank)	1.65
(48) (unclaimed,answer)	0.83

Supporting narratives:

Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

challenge - Back to HLA

It sounded like a scam, so she didn't bother following up immediately. But months later, Ms. Cox called Connie back when she was visiting the United States while moving from China to Singapore, where she lives now ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,connie)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(connie,cox,new_york) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

It sounded like a scam, so she didn't bother following up immediately. But months later, Ms. Cox called Connie back when she was visiting the United States while moving from China to Singapore, where she lives now. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,united_states)

challenge - Back to HLA

But then came that call from Connie. She filed a claim with New York State, which reminded her that Eaton Vance, a financial services company now owned by Morgan Stanley, had been involved with her account ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,eaton_vance)
(eaton_vance,new_york_state)
(company,new_york_state)

challenge - Back to HLA

But then came that call from Connie. She filed a claim with New York State, which reminded her that Eaton Vance, a financial services company now owned by Morgan Stanley, had been involved with her account. And a few months later, a check arrived for over $7,000 ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,services)

challenge - Back to HLA

But then came that call from Connie. She filed a claim with New York State, which reminded her that Eaton Vance, a financial services company now owned by Morgan Stanley, had been involved with her account. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(eaton_vance,services)
(eaton_vance,financial)

WIP - Back to HLA

Cox got wind that someone named Connie was looking for her. The stranger wanted to reunite Ms. Cox with some lost money under her name that the State of New York was holding ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,new_york,connie)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(connie,cox) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

Cox still didn't have her hands on the remaining $45,000. So back to New York she went last year with the brokerage statement in hand, but the state told her that it had already sent her what it had in her name ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,new_york,brokerage)
(cox,brokerage)
Inferred entity relationships (3)
(brokerage,cox,eaton_vance) [inferred]
(brokerage,cox,new_york) [inferred]
(brokerage,cox) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

Cox's funds to the state had made a big mistake.. . In effect, many of her funds lacked a proper label that would have tied them to Ms. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,eaton_vance,label)
(eaton_vance,label)
(cox,label)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(eaton_vance,label) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

In the predawn hours in Singapore this month, Ms. Cox and I discussed the matter by Zoom with the state comptroller's office while waiting for her small children to stir and put an end to the proceedings ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,comptroller)
(cox,eaton_vance,comptroller)
Inferred entity relationships (3)
(comptroller,cox,eaton_vance) [inferred]
(comptroller,cox) [inferred]
(cox,eaton_vance,label) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

Cox and I discussed the matter by Zoom with the state comptroller's office while waiting for her small children to stir and put an end to the proceedings. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,eaton_vance,children)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(cox,eaton_vance,label) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

It is true that the state is at a disadvantage if a brokerage firm has given incomplete data, and Ms. Cox didn't use the affidavit. Still, she did directly ask Eaton Vance for a copy of the check it had sent to the state, not realizing it had moved her shares and not sold them first ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,eaton_vance,brokerage)
(cox,brokerage)
Inferred entity relationships (4)
(brokerage,cox,eaton_vance) [inferred]
(brokerage,cox,new_york) [inferred]
(brokerage,cox) [inferred]
(cox,eaton_vance,label) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

When she filed a claim, something strange happened.. . Early in 2022, Sarah F. Cox got wind that someone named Connie was looking for her. The stranger wanted to reunite Ms. Cox with some lost money under her name that the State of New York was holding ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,connie)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(connie,cox,new_york) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

That didn't work, however, and the company seems to have stopped there. I don't think it should have, and neither does Ms. Cox.. . The state comptroller's office could have done better here, too. My pointed questions about what else Ms. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,comptroller)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(comptroller,cox,eaton_vance) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

For a cut, of course.. . Ms. Cox decided to find the information on her own, and sure enough, the online unclaimed property database that New York maintains had her name. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,unclaimed)

WIP - Back to HLA

If she found your name, she would try to track you down and help you get back money that you may not have even realized was missing. For a cut, of course. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,track)

WIP - Back to HLA

But months later, Ms. Cox called Connie back when she was visiting the United States while moving from China to Singapore, where she lives now. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,singapore)

WIP - Back to HLA

Her entreaties to Eaton Vance had not helped.. . In the predawn hours in Singapore this month, Ms. Cox and I discussed the matter by Zoom with the state comptroller's office while waiting for her small children to stir and put an end to the proceedings ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,singapore)

WIP - Back to HLA

. So where did the money go.. . After Ms. Cox, a writer, shared some of her story in a self-flagellating, F-bomb laden online missive that a colleague pointed me to, I made some calls to see if I could figure it out ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,self-flagellating)

WIP - Back to HLA

So where did the money go.. . After Ms. Cox, a writer, shared some of her story in a self-flagellating, F-bomb laden online missive that a colleague pointed me to, I made some calls to see if I could figure it out. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(cox,missive)

WIP - Back to HLA

If you don't like the answer and live in the state where the unclaimed property is, contact your state representatives and ask them to help as an act of constituent service.. . And if it's the company you patronized that turned your property over to the state and is now erecting obstacles, appeal up the ladder in any customer service department ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,service)
(company,patronized)

WIP - Back to HLA

If that doesn't work, try the should-be-patented executive email carpet bomb method of selectively sending pointed letters to a company's executive team ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,executive)
(company,should-be-patented)

WIP - Back to HLA

There are a lot of Sarah Coxes in the world, and Morgan Stanley said Eaton Vance didn't want to be calling the wrong ones, accidentally disclosing that some other Sarah Cox had money waiting for her ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,sarah_coxes)
(company,eaton_vance)
(company,sarah_cox)

WIP - Back to HLA

If you don't like the answer and live in the state where the unclaimed property is, contact your state representatives and ask them to help as an act of constituent service. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,unclaimed)
(unclaimed,service)

WIP - Back to HLA

There are a lot of Sarah Coxes in the world, and Morgan Stanley said Eaton Vance didn't want to be calling the wrong ones, accidentally disclosing that some other Sarah Cox had money waiting for her. At that point, a scheming Sarah might have tried to steal it. You never know.. . The company did follow rules requiring it to use certain commercial databases to try to find her ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,scheming)

WIP - Back to HLA

And if it's the company you patronized that turned your property over to the state and is now erecting obstacles, appeal up the ladder in any customer service department. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,obstacles)

WIP - Back to HLA

Before it turned the account over to the state, why didn't it try to call her, or use Google or put some of its crackerjack Wall Street research analysts on the case. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(eaton_vance,wall_street)

WIP - Back to HLA

Cox, a writer, shared some of her story in a self-flagellating, F-bomb laden online missive that a colleague pointed me to, I made some calls to see if I could figure it out ...
High Level Abstractions:

(eaton_vance,self-flagellating)
(eaton_vance,f-bomb)

WIP - Back to HLA

Or writing under her own name, frequently.. . Maybe. There are a lot of Sarah Coxes in the world, and Morgan Stanley said Eaton Vance didn't want to be calling the wrong ones, accidentally disclosing that some other Sarah Cox had money waiting for her ...
High Level Abstractions:

(eaton_vance,sarah_coxes)
(eaton_vance,sarah_cox)

WIP - Back to HLA

Cox, a writer, shared some of her story in a self-flagellating, F-bomb laden online missive that a colleague pointed me to, I made some calls to see if I could figure it out. Pretty quickly, Morgan Stanley discovered that a vendor Eaton Vance had used to transfer Ms ...
High Level Abstractions:

(eaton_vance,missive)

WIP - Back to HLA

Still, Eaton Vance might have saved her from herself. Before it turned the account over to the state, why didn't it try to call her, or use Google or put some of its crackerjack Wall Street research analysts on the case. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(eaton_vance,google)

WIP - Back to HLA

Not all unclaimed funds are bank or brokerage accounts that their owners forgot about. There could be stock dividends, insurance policies, uncashed checks and much more. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(unclaimed,stock)
(unclaimed,insurance)
(unclaimed,uncashed)
(unclaimed,policies)

WIP - Back to HLA

How to Find Unclaimed Money in Your Name. Not all unclaimed funds are bank or brokerage accounts that their owners forgot about. There could be stock dividends, insurance policies, uncashed checks and much more ...
High Level Abstractions:

(unclaimed,owners)

WIP - Back to HLA

No, thank you.". . How to Find Unclaimed Money in Your Name. Not all unclaimed funds are bank or brokerage accounts that their owners forgot about. There could be stock dividends, insurance policies, uncashed checks and much more ...
High Level Abstractions:

(unclaimed,brokerage)

WIP - Back to HLA

"I don't think so," she said. No, thank you.". . How to Find Unclaimed Money in Your Name. Not all unclaimed funds are bank or brokerage accounts that their owners forgot about. There could be stock dividends, insurance policies, uncashed checks and much more ...
High Level Abstractions:

(unclaimed,bank)

WIP - Back to HLA

If a state turns you away for whatever reason, make careful note of what, if anything, would cause it to change its mind. If you don't like the answer and live in the state where the unclaimed property is, contact your state representatives and ask them to help as an act of constituent service ...
High Level Abstractions:

(unclaimed,answer)

Semantics Relevance

The State Had at Least $52,000 of Her Money. Why Couldn't She Get It Back?