Sentences with phrase «cost structures»

The Pro-Mix CIT Funds, introduced in 2000, are also offered in Class S to address the ongoing need for various plan cost structures.

Companies have spent almost a decade now scaling back their cost structures & capital investment, while investors have vainly tried to call the bottom nearly every single year.

One of my basic rules is that heavily indebted corporations with bloated cost structures facing stronger competition are rarely good investments.

A moat can come in the form of intangibles, low - cost structures, and high switching costs (or stickiness).»

Many traditional brick - and - mortar retailers have lost sales to online retailers who charge less and have lower cost structures.

No surprise fees, no complicated cost structures.

Both or either side must rely totally on the inspector's expertise and hold the agent harmless; as to digestion, interpretation and or related cost structures to modify, fix, or replace.

Better they should go through the bankruptcy process so that they can reconcile their cost structures, than that the US government should subsidize unionized auto workers.

You can choose several cost structures for a given loan.

You can even adjust the variables, such as the length of the term and the amount of coverage in order to look at several different cost structures that may work for you.

Regarding the tie in to FHA limits, the one area where I believe markets could benefit is to reinstitute down payment assistance but in a more controlled and limited fashion (but without additional cost structures added to the buyer).

However, their low cost structures don't leave much room for splashy advertising campaigns and that, in turn, has left the vast majority of retirement plan investors unaware of their benefits, or even of their existence.

«their low cost structures donâ $ ™ t leave much room for splashy advertising campaigns and that, in turn, has left the vast majority of retirement plan investors unaware of their benefits, or even of their existence.»

I won't repeat all I wrote on this topic in July, but its point was to echo the wisdom of Peter Olson and Bharat Anand that, «Prices of e-books should be shaped by cost structures and customer demand rather than by comparison to traditional paper book pricing.»

We are confident that our entire eco-system (the display is probably one of about 100 sub components in a eReader as you know) will work towards finding competitive cost structures to make the Triton based devices suitable for consumer applications.

The cost structures of KDP Print and Createspace are also exactly the same, except for one interesting nuance.

Lower revenues might create opportunities for smaller, nimble publishers who can innovate without having to service the huge cost structures associated with the large corporate publishers.

Rent is a reflection of cost structures.

rentiers, whether individuals or major corporations, have cost structures.

Given a fixed budget and cost structures, three are sample sizes allocated across levels and treatment conditions that can maximize these chances or statistical power.

And I don't mean to paint all schools with the same brush, for some schools have relatively high productivity, but the reason for the overall inadequacy of productivity is the misallocation of resources because of the perverse incentives that are by nature so deeply embedded in education cost structures.

Inside the Black Box of School District Spending on Professional Development: Lessons from Comparing Five Urban Districts: Education Resource Strategies profiles include information about districts» professional learning cost structures and funding strategies http://www.erstrategies.org/cms/files/1166-blackbox-fulltext.pdf

What matters is how we use these tools to solve problems smarter, deliver knowledge, support students, reimagine instruction, refashion cost structures, and challenge students in new ways.

Technology provides tools to help solve problems smarter, deliver knowledge, support students, extend and deepen instruction, and refashion cost structures.

Can they change themselves — including both their delivery systems and their cost structures — enough to brighten their own futures?

Unless states choose to overhaul the antiquated cost structures and operating models that undergird most schools systems, any new investment they make will fall short of hoped - for transformation.

So, none of my concerns should be taken as pooh - poohing the central idea (though, as I said yesterday, it's not clear to me why colleges or universities ought to necessarily be invited to the clinical residency dance — as most bring little more than hefty cost structures, hard - to - change routines, and faculty of dubious clinical expertise).

The state essentially requires these smaller schools and districts to have high per - pupil cost structures.

And, finally, given that Minnesota enacted the first charter law twenty years ago, why has it taken this long for scholars to start to dig into the big questions about how and why charters are (or aren't) seizing opportunities to rethink industrial era cost structures and staffing routines?

In times of shrinking enrollment, districts can suddenly find themselves with unsupportable cost structures.

«But their cost structures are entirely different.

«Because of our high cost structures here starting with land — let alone utility costs, taxes and everything else — the Town of Southold's agriculture can't afford just to be a raw crop commodity agricultural industry anymore,» Mr. Baiz said.

But ETRs can give a good idea of just how large differences in cost structures (exploration, production and so on) would have to be in order to account for a given tax gap between jurisdictions.

I think what would be interesting it to not see what the French are paying, but rather see each of these meals and their associated cost structures ($ / entree) if they were served by schools in the US.

So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are really becoming two different businesses, with very different cost structures, that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.

Areas where corporations have put this cash to work include: continued dividend increases and share buybacks, which return capital back to shareholders; ongoing investment and capital expenditures as well as research and development; and increasing productivity and lowering cost structures.

EBITDA - to - Enterprise - Value has the benefit of including operating cost structures, but misses out on payments to bondholders and the government.

Just as the arguments for higher cost structures in other industries have been washed away by the internet tsunami (go ask retailers or content providers), so too will the arguments for premium pricing for institutional trades succumb to the inevitable erosion.

In each case, moves into Engine 2 meant new competition, new cost structures and new economic models to run in parallel, and the new business took at least five years to flourish.

Volkswagen Group Procurement sources products and services for the Group that provide optimum customer value using the best possible cost structures.

A range of factors have driven this shift, including a sharp reduction in the cost to advance technology companies to proof of concept and business model validation — aided by declining infrastructure expenses, the rise of cloud - based software and service providers, and «pay as you grow» cost structures.

These transfer payments to the FIRE sector and government agencies have transformed international cost structures, absorbing roughly 75 % of U.S. family budgets.

Traditional banks are starting to feel the disintermediation pinch by alternative lenders who lack their legacy infrastructure and cost structures and use digital - first, artificial intelligence - powered processes to underwrite risk and extend credit instantly.

What's really killing earnings and standing in the way of developing new coal reserves are plunging commodity prices that have left many producers stranded with high cost structures that are no longer commercially viable.

Essentially they are using high - cost structures and delivering less than optimal benefits for the charitable purposes that constitute their missions.

«Dodd - Frank is a part of the regulatory burden, but there are many regulations in addition to Dodd - Frank and it is the accumulation of those regulations over time that comprise the regulatory burden that banks must absorb into their cost structures,» Thomas Hoenig, vice chairman of the FDIC, said in an interview.

Cost structures and licensing models can be convoluted, so be aware of what's included and what is priced as an add - on or per transaction fee, and know what the implementation costs will be.

When domestic prices and wages spiral upward, they cancel the competitive advantage of a low currency because domestic cost structures are ratcheted upward.

Still, a conflict with cost structures similar to Iraq - Afghanistan would be disastrous for the U.S. economy, for two reasons:

They sat down with managers and researchers at a number manufacturing companies in the U.S. and China that produce lithium - ion cells for consumer electronics, asking about cost structures.