Sentences with phrase «cost of our aggregate»

About a third of the increase was related to the cost of our aggregate catastrophe program which will help reduce the volatility of our earnings.

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I explained that the massive fees levied by a variety of «helpers» would leave their clients - again in aggregate - worse off than if the amateurs simply invested in an unmanaged low - cost index fund,» he recapped, writing in Berkshire's annual shareholder letter.

The Harvard Business Review found, «patent trolls cost defendant firms $ 29 billion per year in direct out - of - pocket costs; in aggregate, patent litigation destroys over $ 60 billion in firm wealth each year.

The $ 1.6 million sum «represents the approximate aggregate incremental cost to Amazon.com of security arrangements for Mr. Bezos in addition to security arrangements provided at business facilities and for business travel.

Nobody has a Gross Negotiation Product figure that totals up the aggregate costs of all this instruction and tip - giving, but as John Baker, editor of The Negotiator Magazine, observes, «There are a lot of people who are making their living that way.»

In fact, the number of these lawsuits has increased each year since 2000, resulting in a total increase of more than 450 percent and an aggregate cost of $ 3.6 B (since 2007).

«However, the aggregate increase in labor cost is lower because classifying team members as employees improves retention and enables us to train them, increasing their efficiency,» Munchery's VP of operations, Kris Fredrickson told Business Insider in July.

Shirky offers dozens of examples of Wikipedia - like projects that showcase the potential of the low - cost aggregated effort now available to us via technology.

The aggregate incremental cost of personal use of the company aircraft is calculated based on a cost - per - flight - hour charge developed by a nationally recognized and independent service.

EPI derived its estimate using the methodology the White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) used in its 2015 report, which estimated that the aggregate annual cost of conflicted advice is about $ 17 billion each year).

Her attempt to reconstruct the staff cost - benefit analysis concluded that tipped workers would lose $ 5.8 billion a year, that the take - home pay of back - of - the - house or other non-tipped workers would hardly change, and that employers in the aggregate would gain $ 5.8 billion a year.

Research shows that patent trolls cost defendant firms $ 29 billion per year in direct out - of - pocket costs; in aggregate, patent litigation destroys over $ 60 billion in firm wealth each year.

GDP growth is quite pointless if significant, but unmeasured, costs are rising sufficiently fast that the aggregate of visible and invisible costs exceed the almost certainly overstated benefits captured in the GDP statistic.

In 2017, Mr. McNeill earned an aggregate $ 395,803 in variable compensation based on the achievement of certain target levels of (i) vehicle deliveries during the third and fourth quarters of 2017, (ii) operational and financial metrics relating to vehicle service performance and costs during 2017, and (iii) customer satisfaction scores during 2017.

The values of these personal benefits are based on the incremental aggregate cost to our company and are not individually quantified because none of them individually exceed the greater of $ 25,000 or 10 percent of the total amount of perquisites and personal benefits for such NEO.

Using the 10,000 actively traded U.S. companies in the Compustat database as a proxy for the number of companies potentially subject to the rule, we can estimate an aggregate annual cost of $ 5 billion.

Instead, the aggregate costs are calculated by the authors of the Report themselves, who make generalizations and extrapolations which they often do not fully support.»

While federal student loan consolidation simplifies the repayment process, it does not offer a reduction in aggregate interest rate, nor does it lower the total cost of borrowing.

In the second quarter of fiscal 2018, the company recorded Restructuring charges of $ 33 million and implementation costs and other related costs of $ 26 million in Administrative expenses and $ 1 million in Cost of products sold (aggregate impact of $ 46 million after tax, or $.15 per share) related to these initiatives.

China has overinvested in infrastructure and manufacturing capacity to such an extent that in the aggregate the cost of additional public sector investment exceeds the present value of future increases in productivity generated by the investment.

Companies will need to prioritise data transparency, create digital wallets to verify user identities and aggregate accounts, and work to mitigate the costs of operating this technology.

Nonetheless, continued pressure on raw materials prices, evidence of capacity constraints in some sectors and reports of higher employment costs — notwithstanding the steadiness to date of aggregate series for wages — constitute a risk that this forecast could prove to be too low.

The elderly tend to dedicate twice as much of their aggregate spending to medical care, as well as more on housing costs, relative to working - age Americans.

Magazines, meal prep services like Blue Apron, personal stylists like Trunk Club or Stitch Fix, your gym, etc. — some of these fees may seem minor on their own, but in aggregate, they could be costing you in excess of $ 300 per month.

Saxo Bank's Head of FX Prime Brokerage, Peter Plester, said: «If a client was to develop the tools required to be able to provide effective aggregated liquidity internally, there would be a lot of cost and resources and the client would spend a lot of time talking to several liquidity providers.

Other official labour cost data based on wage - bill measures, such as average weekly ordinary time earnings and average earnings from the national accounts, paint a similar picture, identifying firm wage outcomes but giving little indication of an acceleration of aggregate wages growth.

«During fiscal year 2000, the Company repurchased 56 million shares of common stock for an aggregate cost of $ 1.1 billion, primarily to manage dilution resulting from shares issued under the Company's employee stock plans.»

The increases granted will raise the rate of wages growth for workers on award wages, but the acceleration is quite mild and it will have only a small impact on aggregate wage costs.

The switch from TLTRO I to TLTRO II will provide banks with a net subsidy that may or may not be booked immediately in treasury accounts, but will eventually help compensate the aggregate cost of negative deposit rates.

[1] Also, any net demand for TLTRO II that is not rolled over from TLTRO I will increase the level of excess liquidity and thus the aggregate cost of negative rates for depositors, while potentially reducing the amount of other refinancing operations, including ECB's MRO currently standing at EUR63bn.

It is estimated that the aggregate electricity costs of mining across the Bitcoin Network exceed $ 300,000 every 24 hours.

It is the anguish of waiting, the agony of struggle; it is killing and being killed, maiming and being maimed; it is leave - taking, absence, fear and hope, joy and despair, devotion and hatred, escape and death; it is the exultation of victory; it is the bitterness of defeat; it is the incalculable aggregate of all the blood, sweat, and tears the war is costing the thousands who fight and the millions who suffer the war's desolation.

Frequently rent seeking costs in a conflict by all parties to a conflict can equal or exceed the economic rent that is at stake (e.g. the aggregate litigation costs of parties in a lawsuit over who owns an income producing asset).

It is not surprising, in a country with approximately half a million elected offices, where about 133 million people voted in 2008, and with ballots that can call on voters to make dozens of decisions, that the aggregate costs of campaigns and elections mounts.

If the state gave her aggregate figures, I'd like to see a breakdown of for what exactly costs are being incurred.

Located 500 miles from 41 percent of the US population and 59 percent of Canada's with access to 25 percent of the world's fresh water, Western New York is poised to take advantage of its many assets and strengths — such as a tourism sector with international acclaim; relatively low costs of living and doing business; an educated and skilled workforce; and strong aggregate household income.

Based on complementary metal - oxide - semiconductor (COMS) technology — a standard low - cost, high - volume chip manufacturing technique used for most processors and chips today — a group of researchers from IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, together with a consortium working under the EU - funded project «ADDAPT,» have demonstrated a novel optical receiver (RX) that can achieve an aggregate bandwidth of 160 Gb / s through four optical fibers.

The study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, estimates that the aggregate savings from reduced hospital expenditures associated with expanded Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage totaled approximately $ 1.5 billion per year, or approximately 2.2 % of the total $ 67.7 billion cost of Medicare Part D in 2011.

Financial Benefit: ReFED defines this as a strategy's aggregate financial benefit to society (consumers, businesses, governments and other stakeholders), minus all investment and costs per ton of food waste diverted.

The notion that charter enrollment presents a net cost of over $ 400 million to districts is incomplete and misleading; just as strong a claim could be leveled that charter enrollment provides districts with an aggregate $ 85 million spending boost for their students.

Included in the PowerPoint: Macroeconomic Objectives (AS Level) a) Aggregate Demand (AD) and Aggregate Supply (AS) analysis - the shape and determinants of AD and AS curves; AD = C+I+G + (X-M)- the distinction between a movement along and a shift in AD and AS - the interaction of AD and AS and the determination of the level of output, prices and employment b) Inflation - the definition of inflation; degrees of inflation and the measurement of inflation; deflation and disinflation - the distinction between money values and real data - the cause of inflation (cost - push and demand - pull inflation)- the consequences of inflation c) Balance of payments - the components of the balance of payments accounts (using the IMF / OECD definition): current account; capital and financial account; balancing item - meaning of balance of payments equilibrium and disequilibrium - causes of balance of payments disequilibrium in each component of the accounts - consequences of balance of payments disequilibrium on domestic and external economy d) Exchange rates - definitions and measurement of exchange rates - nominal, real, trade - weighted exchange rates - the determination of exchange rates - floating, fixed, managed float - the factors underlying changes in exchange rates - the effects of changing exchange rates on the domestic and external economy using AD, Marshall - Lerner and J curve analysis - depreciation / appreciation - devaluation / revaluation e) The Terms of Trade - the measurement of the terms of trade - causes of the changes in the terms of trade - the impact of changes in the terms of trade f) Principles of Absolute and comparative advantage - the distinction between absolute and comparative advantage - free trade area, customs union, monetary union, full economic union - trade creation and trade diversion - the benefits of free trade, including the trading possibility curve g) Protectionism - the meaning of protectionism in the context of international trade - different methods of protection and their impact, for example, tariffs, import duties and quotas, export subsidies, embargoes, voluntary export restraints (VERs) and excessive administrative burdens («red tape»)- the arguments in favor of protectionism This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked about.

Benefits of technological training and college access tools include convenience, flexibility, cost effectiveness, access and reach, appeal to young people, and capacity for aggregating and disaggregating data.

A recent study by Robert M. Costrell and Jeffery Dean (see «The Rising Cost of Teachers» Health Care,» research, Spring 2013) found that aggregate district health - care costs were 13 to 19 percent lower in 2012 than they would have been in the absence of the Act 10 provisions, with two - thirds of the decline coming from reduced premiums and one - third from increased employee contributions.

Another study, which looked at the aggregate costs and benefits of national service — including both social and fiscal — estimated the social and economic returns to total approximately $ 7.5 billion.

The Co-op offers a solution, based on sound actuarial principles, to the challenges districts and communities across Connecticut face every day by aggregating special education costs together at the state level to ensure predictable, stable funding for special education services — even during financially uncertain times — while keeping decisions and delivery of those services local.

Instead, the agreements allow e-book retailers to discount prices up to the aggregate cost — generally a 30 % commission under the agency model — of the discount computed over the course of the contract, which is generally a year.»

With Kindle Unlimited, reading, in aggregate, is up 40 % for the 60 days after they join Kindle Unlimited, total dollar spend is also up about 25 % [Editor's note: it was not clear if this included the cost of the subscription or not.]

Sophisticated authors will look back at promotions over a 3 or 6 month window to aggregate the full effect, and corresponding full cost of their promotional activity, to account for the lag.

So much of the «open educational resources» movement and the drive to aggregate and mash up these resources is being driven by a «print on demand» philosophy that to find a textbook creator sensitive to the future of mobile reading, its cost efficiencies, and its convenience, is a real pleasure.

The second lowest cost bond fund is the SCHZ ETF, a Charles Schwab tracking the aggregate investment grade bond universe with a price tag of.10 % per year.