Sentences with phrase «about a decade years»

Although only three years has passed since the first film in real time, this sequel takes place about a decade years after the events of The Mummy.

There was no existence of a professional summary section on resumes until about a decade years ago.

Not exact matches

What has really happened in private equity over those decades is that investors, net of fees, did about 25 % better than the S&P up through the 2005 «vintage» year (denoting funds that first drew capital in 2005).

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

Mylan drew major flak last year after news broke that it had steadily increased the list price for an EpiPen two - pack from about $ 100 to more than $ 600 in less than a decade.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

Home ownership has experienced the biggest decline in two decades, and the number of renting households has been growing by about 700,000 a year since 2006.

Sirius stock is enjoying its best run in more than a decade: It's up about about 45 % from its low of a year ago, and on Thursday it briefly hit $ 5.00 for the first time since 2006 before settling just under that mark.

About a decade later, I ran into an old friend — someone who had helped me prepare for the Supreme Court interview, whom I hadn't seen in years.

Frank Giustra has spent roughly two decades giving money away, but every year teaches him something fresh about philanthropy.

Had it not been for Tiger's absurd run for the better part of a decade between 2000 - 2010, more people would be talking about Dustin Johnson's run of top - tier performances over the past year.

Ecomagination's decade - long manufacturing of energy - efficient technologies like these — along with the acquisition of Alstom's power division last year — has now made GE responsible for about one - third of the world's electricity capacity, making its commitment to clean energy a critical step for the future.

As a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the business.

As you begin to think about a day when you might sell or delegate control of your business, you'll likely start projecting months, years, and even decades into the future.

Robert Shiller says his calculations suggest stocks will rise about 2.5 % a year for the next decade, plus inflation, which has recently been averaging 1.5 %.

Russ Lombardo, a sales consultant based in Cary, North Carolina, was working with a company about a decade ago (during the dot - com bubble) when the company's CEO made an announcement to his employees: «He said there was no reason we couldn't do 70 percent growth for the next two years,» Lombardo recalls.

Despite the «overnight» success stories you read about in glossy business magazines, the overwhelming majority of successful businesses take years, if not decades, to build.

«Better late than never,» Morris told a newspaper when asked how he felt about waiting four and a half decades to receive the medal this year.

She might as well be in the 1950s or 1960s, because the products that Mattel introduced in those decades — flagship franchises Barbie and Hot Wheels — still make up about 30 % of the 72 - year - old company's global sales.

However, Liss, who has worked with Warhols for more than a decade, appraising works for the Art Gallery of Ontario and other museums across the country, thinks collectors should be concerned about the foundation's decision this year to cease its authentication business.

Failing this sort of bold action, Hofmeister sees North America entering an «energy abyss» by the end of the next decade, the result of land (mis) management, an irrational aversion to nuclear power, and 50 years of ignoring serious questions about our resource base and the infrastructure that powers society.

Last year the company admitted it would take until 2030 to halve its greenhouse gases, about a decade longer than it had hoped.

In its first decade, the Rooney Rule seemed to make a notable difference: Beginning in 2003, ESPN reports that minorities filled about 20 % of head coaching vacancies — and that percentage edged up steadily each year.

The Nikkei business daily reported in February that the rate of working women aged 30 to 34 rose to 75.2 percent last year, up from about 50 percent three decades ago.

You're talking about years and decades of expertise and technical knowledge.

The dramatic drop in oil prices to $ 40 - 60 in the past four years after a decade of $ 100 per barrel oil has lessened consumer concerns about gasoline prices and boosted SUVs and truck sales.

To New Jersey folks, that's a huge subsidy - the state collects around $ 2.5 billion in corporate taxes each year, so they're offering Amazon about 14 percent of the taxes paid by other businesses for the next two decades.

About a year ago, we asked our venture partner Scott Belsky who he thought had the greatest potential to become one of the best investors of the next decade.

The founder of Vanguard Group thinks a conservative portfolio of bonds will only return about 3 percent a year over the next decade, and stocks won't do much better.

With more than 52 years serving as the chief executive officer of his investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, Buffet has philosophized about the markets for decades.

While I continue to believe that the dollar faces substantial risk of further erosion in its exchange value, as well as a near doubling of the CPI over the coming decade or so (both reflecting the massive increase in U.S. government liabilities in recent years), those prospects are not likely to emerge until risk - aversion about credit default materially abates.

Admittedly, one could make the same argument about gold, but gold has been widely accepted by humankind as a thing of value for more than two - and - a-half thousand years — compared to less than a decade for bitcoin.

The new threshold in 2016 would be $ 970 a week, or $ 50,440 a year, about where it would be if it had kept pace with inflation over the decades.

Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500 Index revenues have grown at a nominal rate of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit of stock buybacks.

In fact as I started writing more about the outlook for hard commodity prices over the next year, I adjusted my outlook downwards and proposed that iron ore prices would fall below $ 50 a ton before the end of the decade.

Barely three years later he was named as a finalist for Fixed Income Manager of the Decade — a title that eventually went to Bill Gross — when, in a move that shocked the industry, he was summarily fired from TCW (makes you wonder about those stewardship grades).

The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?

If you are the kind of income investor who's happy with dividends that are steady and can grow year after year, or even decades, and don't care as much about yields — 3M yields 2.3 % currently — 3M is a right fit for your portfolio.

The largest negative deviation was in October 1974, when the actual annual 10 - year return for the S&P 500 was about 5 % lower than the projections that our valuation methodology indicated a decade earlier.

Premiums would increase by about 10 percent in most years of the decade the report covers.»

At the annual shareholders meeting this year, Buffett explained that he thought Berkshire Hathaway's intrinsic value grew at an average annual rate of about 10 % over the last decade, but he warned that future returns would be lower if interest rates remained near generational lows.

Many investors haven't had to worry about this question for years, as the Federal Reserve has continued its zero - rate policy, and the bull market in bonds has gone on for decades.

Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

Gerardo D.: I've been involved in the resource space in one way or another for just a little over a decade, about 11 years now.

Based on the valuation measures most strongly correlated with actual subsequent total returns (and those correlations are near or above 90 %), we continue to estimate that the S&P 500 will achieve zero or negative nominal total returns over horizons of 8 years or less, and only about 2 % annually over the coming decade.

People thought it would take years to become relevant; I remember a man coming up to me after I spoke about cryptocurrency and telling me that my talk would be interesting in a decade.