Sentences with phrase «cent of the first year»

Dealing a big blow to lakhs of insurance agents across the country, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has proposed that reward to individual insurance agents should not be more than 20 per cent of first year commission or remuneration.

From the 2nd policy year, the policyholder can pay as low as 75 per cent of the first year premium without any reduction in the initial sum assured.

For example if you go for a policy with regular premium structure, an agent can get about 7 to 30 per cent of first year premium amounts and this is no mean sum by any standards.

Not exact matches

Shares in scooter manufacturer Vmoto have dived 20 per cent today after the company announced on Friday it expected to record a $ 2.24 million loss for the first half of the 2011 financial year.

Henderson - based contractor Civmec lifted profit to $ S10.4 million ($ A10 million) for the first half of the financial year, up 59 per cent, on the back of a big surge in revenue.

MGM Resorts, for example, agreed to pay employees an extra 35 cents per hour in the first year of the contract, 50 cents more in the second year and an additional 55 cents in the third.

Waste management and industrial services company Toxfree has reported a 33 per cent jump in net profit to $ 10.5 million for the first half of the financial year.

For the first quarter of its fiscal year 2017, which ended March 3, the company reported quarterly earnings per share of 94 cents (non-GAAP) and revenue of $ 1.68 billion.

At first glance, the planned $ 600 million expansion of Perth's Karrinyup Shopping Centre seems to run counter to the relentless march of internet retailing, especially as a fresh report predicts that 50 per cent of all retail sales will be made over the internet in less than 10 years.

Even fans of wage hikes acknowledge that they must be done in steps — say, an $ 1.00 per hour jump the first year, and 75 cents the second.

Net loss attributable to Hasbro was $ 112.5 million, or 90 cents per share, in the first quarter ended April 1, compared with a profit of $ 68.6 million, or 54 cents per share, a year earlier.

«2015 was another mediocre year for the Canadian economy, growing by only 1 per cent in 2015 after a technical recession in the first half of the year.

The share price of mining junior Batavia Mining Ltd has more than doubled in the first few days of 2006 on a 140 per cent gold resource upgrade that could bring its Gullewa copper gold project in Western Australia back in production within a year.

The first - quarter earnings amounted to 97 cents per share, compared with a loss of 19 cents in the quarter a year ago, while same stores sales were up 2.8 per cent year - over-year.

Higher costs will hurt its ability to grow profits in the first three months of the year, it said, forecasting earnings of between 60 and 80 cents a share, below the 83 cents a share forecast by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.

In his first money - making venture a six years old, Buffett sold packs of Juicy Fruit, Spearmint and Doublemint for five cents a piece, according to Alice Schroeder's 2008 biography, «The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.»

The 7/22 FT reported: «Across countries that use the euro, average debt to gross domestic product reached 92.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2015, up from 92 per cent in the previous quarter and 91.9 per cent in the same period last year, according to figures from Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency.»

Last year, ECU was listed as the first - preference choice for 34 per cent of Year 12, the highest of WA's public universityear, ECU was listed as the first - preference choice for 34 per cent of Year 12, the highest of WA's public universitYear 12, the highest of WA's public universities.

«This bid seems to defy logic,» Peel Hunt analyst Paul Morland told the Financial Times, characterizing the 79 % premium HP paid as «an «amazing» premium for a company whose earnings grew by just 6 per cent in the first half of the year.»

The company's search data, however, show interest in Calgary has been flat, while the number of inquiries for Edmonton is up 50 per cent in the first quarter compared to the year before.

During the first few months of the year the S&P 500 rose by less than 2 %, but Canadians who invested in the index are up more than 5 %, thanks to the loonie's fall to 90 cents (U.S.).

The ACCA allows manufacturing companies to depreciate, for tax purposes, the value of newly purchased equipment and machinery at the accelerated rate of 50 per cent per year, reducing their taxable income in the first few years of owning the asset.

As for operating system market share, comScore says that Google is first with 50.5 per cent of the market running some version of Android, up from 44 per cent a year ago.

According to an analysts» consensus compiled by Yahoo Finance, Goldman Sachs is forecast revenues of $ 8.45 bn (# 6.73 bn) for the first quarter, up 33 per cent on last year.

In a report last week, S&P forecast global investment banks would boost their revenues by 10 per cent year - on - year in the first quarter of 2017.

Meanwhile, TD Bank's (TSX: TD) Bharat Masrani received $ 9 million in total direct compensation during his first full year in the top job — an increase of 10 per cent from the previous year.

The bank had predicted the economy to expand by 2.5 per cent in the first three months of the year.

In his first full year as president and CEO of Royal Bank (TSX: RY), David McKay saw his total direct compensation jump 44 per cent to $ 10.9 million.

According to the U.S. Solar Industries Association, in the first three quarters of 2014, solar delivered 36 per cent of America's new power needs, up from 9.6 per cent just two years previous.

French food group Danone achieved better than expected first - quarter sales growth of nearly 5 per cent, helped by Chinese demand for its baby formula products, cementing guidance for higher profit and sales this year and beyond.

While Canada is ranked fifth in the world (behind the U.S., China, India and the U.K.) in terms of global venture capital investment, and many Canadian companies achieve success in their first five years, only three per cent of firms that survive beyond that point classify as high growth.

According to this June's Financial Times «Expenditure by local and central governments in China jumped nearly 25 per cent from the same month a year earlier, a sharp acceleration from the 9.6 per cent growth registered in the first four months of the year, according to figures released by the finance ministry,» and HSBC's Flash PMI index suggests for the first time in six months that there has been an expansion in manufacturing, although the flash index is, of course, preliminary and may be revised.

A case can be made that the first public exposition of the inflation target came in 1993 in a speech by then Governor Fraser (1993): «My own view is that if inflation could be held to an average of 2 — 3 per cent over a period of years, that would be a good outcome».

Layton was responding to criticism from Jack Mintz — the economist oft - quoted by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as justification for his tax policies — that the cap - and - trade system the NDP proposed to cover the cost of $ 3.5 billion worth of green initiatives in the first year would raise gasoline prices by 10 cents per litre.

This Discover It has a similar rewards structure to the Venture card: you can redeem miles for travel statement credit (at a rate of 1 cent per mile), meaning you'll get a flat rewards rate of 3 % the first year and 1.5 % each year after that.

Last month, the provincial government released statistics showing that B.C. welcomed 150,000 more visitors in the first six months of 2015 than the same period in 2014 — an increase of 8.3 per cent year over year.

Even despite softening markets and economic uncertainty around the globe, our port still saw 1.5 per cent growth in the first six months of this year compared to 2014, with increases in demand for Canadian wheat, sulphur, potash, lumber, and consumer goods.

First, make sure in budget planning that the debt level averages around 30 per cent of GDP (roughly where it is now) over the next four years.

While Barbara Stymiest will provide a detailed review of our first quarter results that were released earlier this morning, I am pleased to report record earnings for the quarter with net income of almost 1.5 billion dollars, up 28 per cent from a year ago.

Fast - food restaurant operator Yum Brands Inc. said Wednesday it had net income of $ 433 million, or $ 1.27 a share, in the first quarter, up from $ 280 million, or 77 cents a share, in the year - earlier period.

Canadian seafood exports to China in the first half of the year grew by 11 per cent compared with the same period last year.

Wayfair reported a first - quarter loss of $ 1.22 per share after a loss of 66 cents per share last year.

The first — the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund — was established over 30 years ago to save about 30 per cent of oil and gas revenues for the province's long - term future.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics said last week that gross domestic product expanded 1.1 per cent in the first three months of the year, while year - on - year headline growth accelerated to 3.1 per cent, its fastest pace in almost four years.

Those outflows showed up in returns data, with a Bloomberg Barclay's Index of U.S. corporate bonds posting a 2.3 per cent loss for the first three months of the year.

The Reserve Bank of Australia cut the cash rate in May from 2 per cent to a record low 1.75 per cent out of concern that inflation was trending too low, following first - quarter inflation data that showed prices had fallen 0.2 per cent in the first three months of the year.

Cybersecurity software vendor Palo Alto Networks Inc (NYSE: PANW) reported first quarter results Monday that included revenues that rose 27 percent year - over-year and non-GAAP earnings of 74 cents per share versus 55 cents per share last year.

The first quarterly dividend of 1.5 Canadian cents per common share was paid at the end of January 2014 and further quarterly dividends were subsequently paid at the end of April, July, October in each year.

The Australian economy continued to perform strongly during the first half of 2000, with growth running at more than 4 per cent per annum, a noteworthy performance for an economy that is now entering the tenth year of an economic upswing.

The first reading of the median forecast of inflation for the year to June 2002 is around 2.3 per cent.