Sentences with phrase «equity policy for»

Guidance for Child Welfare Administrators on Achieving Racial Equity Policy for Results, Center for the Study of Social Policy Provides guidance for child welfare administrators for finding the causes of disproportionality and developing policies on how to measure and improve preventive services, entries into care, placement type, length of stay, and permanency for children and families of color.

To this end, agents must, as a condition of their appointment, comply with the requirements set out in this policy,» states the government's workplace equity policy for legal agents.

In other words, the DoJ's workplace equity policy for legal agents is Canada's own version of «don't ask, don't tell.»

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Because one - in - four small - business owners use home equity to finance their businesses, this policy makes it more difficult for some small - company owners to obtain credit for their companies.

Not because it is attractive as a repository for equity capital, but precisely because it is so unattractive, the low - return business must follow a high retention policy.

Without embedding intergenerational equity into Canada's labour market policy we will be headed for long - period of reduced economic growth, stagnation, or even decline.

The general policy of the Board is that compensation for independent directors should be a mix of cash and equity - based compensation, with the majority of compensation being provided in the form of equity - based compensation.

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

Its Silicon Valley venture capital backers saw it as a game - changer for real estate, and envisioned themselves picking off $ 250 million a year out of a potential $ 25 billion market: insurance policies that would protect the nation's homeowners from one of their deepest fears — further losses in their equity.

The turnaround is in part due to policy initiatives such as debt - for - equity swaps that helped the largest banks deal with rising debt loads, and a widespread crackdown by the government on shadow banking that has given them an edge over smaller peers.

This area covers the impact of policies affecting Canadians» health and long - term care choices and outcomes, for example regarding access to and quality of care, funding arrangements and incentives, pharmaceuticals policies, intergenerational equity considerations, and the impact of these choices on the public purse.

Mr. Garland and his team are responsible for developing and implementing the Funds» active ownership programs for public equities, including voting proxies, engaging portfolio companies on their environmental, social and governance policies and practices, and advocating for regulatory reforms to protect investors and strengthen shareholder rights.

«I think the real key is equities are all about confidence, and... my analysis is probably based on Trump's policies toward trade and immigration, which are very much a risk to economic growth, while his other policies on tax and fiscal spending are positive for growth.

I asked Wade Pfau, associate professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, to calculate the long - run opportunity cost of bond investment versus equity investment.

We have a written policy for granting equity for hiring, retention and recognition purposes.

In addition, pursuant to our outside director equity compensation policy, in the event of the termination of a non-employee director's service to the Board as a result of death, disability or retirement, all of the non-employee director's equity compensation awards will become fully vested, provided that the non-employee director served as a member of the Board for at least three years prior to the date of termination and the non-employee director satisfied our equity ownership guidelines during his or her service as a Board member.

A growth agenda may be good for equities, but the untethering of the monetary policy experiment may not be good for equities, and there may be some ambiguity as to what this means for risk assets and portfolios.

(2) Reflects 2015 Merger - related adjustments including the change to align Kraft to Kraft Heinz's accounting policy for postemployment benefit plans; incremental amortization resulting from the fair value adjustment of Kraft's definite - lived intangible assets; incremental compensation expense due to the fair value remeasurement of certain of Kraft's equity awards; and, certain deal costs related to the 2015 Merger.

Concerns about global trade tensions between China and the U.S. and the fear that the stellar earnings could be as good as it gets for stocks are all combining to undermine the sort of confidence that was in abundance during last year's run of repeated records for equity benchmarks, as the U.S. economy enters it ninth year of expansion and as the Federal Reserve moves to normalize monetary policy from crisis - era levels.

The pay - equity policy was championed by County Executive Mark Poloncarz as a way to make sure that men and women are paid equally for doing the same work — a widely studied issue across the country.

According to Bower, many retailers have adopted an «equity - based» return shipping policy, where the retailer determines who is to blame for the product return — the customer or the retailer — and assigns responsibility for the return shipping costs accordingly.

If investors come to feel that the central bank is prepared to raise rates more aggressively than expected, then that could be a big headwind for equities, especially as all of Trump's policy proposals will add to US national debt.

Summary of the Robin Hood conference: Einhorn, Tepper, Druckenmiller etc [ValueWalk] Profile of Renaissance Technologies» secretive Medallion Fund [Bloomberg] Reflections on the Trump Presidency, after the election [Ray Dalio] How T. Boone Pickens sits tight in the riskiest of businesses [NYTimes] The next generation of hedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWalk]

We believe that equity exposure has become a key central - bank policy instrument to suppress currency - exchange rates and to grope for yield that they can not achieve in traditional safe assets.

If you do not indicate that you have a long term care policy, plan to purchase an annuity or long term care policy to cover long term care, plan to use home equity or a family member to help care for you, or predict that you will not ever need long term care, then the system will apply costs to the last 3 years of your life.

Though China has made strides in opening its equity and bond markets to foreign investors, American banks and securities firms have complained for decades that China's ownership - cap policy marginalized them in one of the fastest - growing financial systems on the planet.

Given the introduction of several new ECB policies yesterday (expanded QE; purchases of nonfinancial, investment grade corporate debt; new refinancing programs; incentives to reduce the impact of negative interest rates on banks and spur lending) we think the outlook for European credit and equities is quite constructive.

Instead, Koesterich says that investors are looking for ways to diversify equity risk, and the historical diversifier of choice — bonds — is increasingly correlated to equity, and should become more so as monetary policy evolves and rate hikes take place.

Therefore, given the newly initiated distribution policy, and the company's positive financial outlook, investors looking for extra income may find this high - yielding equity of interest.

This could present challenges for future equity market performance as major central banks gradually move to normalize extraordinarily supportive policy measures.

Donald Trump's unanticipated election victory heightened expectations for pro-growth economic policies and drove equity markets higher as the year came to a close.

Eileen Appelbaum, Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and author of Private Equity at Work

Other specific duties and responsibilities of the HR and Compensation Committee include reviewing senior management selection and overseeing succession planning, including reviewing the leadership development process; reviewing and approving objectives relevant to executive officer compensation and evaluating performance and determining the compensation of executive officers in accordance with those objectives; approving severance arrangements and other applicable agreements for executive officers; overseeing HP's equity and incentive compensation plans; overseeing non-equity-based benefit plans and approving any changes to such plans involving a material financial commitment by HP; monitoring workforce management programs; establishing compensation policies and practices for service on the Board and its committees, including annually reviewing the appropriate level of director compensation and recommending to the Board any changes to that compensation; developing stock ownership guidelines for directors and executive officers and monitoring compliance with such guidelines; and annually evaluating its performance and its charter.

The Catch - 22 for Christians pondering the relationship of religion and public policy in a culturally diverse society is that if Christianity is to have a voice in shaping public philosophy, it seems that equity demands that it do so in a way that gives Christians no special voice.

In concrete fashion the document advances three values against which energy policies and technologies may be measured for their consistency with the goal of ecological justice: sustainability, equity and participation.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

A useful parallel can be drawn between policies that encourage education and the work of groups like Habitat for Humanity, where the «sweat equity» of family members, combined with the personal and financial involvement of others, provides better housing for many.

Jack joins the association following her position as director of regulatory and international affairs at the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI), where she was responsible for navigating the intersection of science and policy and the promotion of global harmonization of standards to ensure trade equity for frozen foods.

Competition policy (SME focus; need for equity; treat SMEs as «consumers» when dealing with larger businesses - extend unfair terms contracts to small business; need «legal precedents or statutory definitions» as part of unconscionable conduct framework); competition laws (focus on unfair terms and unconscionable behaviour; mention of MMP but not in context of s 46; access - call for broader access; price signalling (not clear)-RRB-; administration

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Within this role she led and facilitated the Race and Social Justice Initiative for the department and helped develop tools and an equity policy lens that city employees could use in their work.

Minnesota recently released «Prenatal to Age 3: A Comprehensive, Racially - Equitable Policy Plan for Universal Healthy Child Development» outlining specific actions the state can take to promote social, economic, health, and educational equity for all children.

The policy is a framework which seeks to provide social justice, equity and inclusive growth using a transformative mechanism for mitigating poverty and unemployment in Nigeria.

Staff at Edward R. Murrow HS in Midwood, owed $ 10 million in Campaign for Fiscal Equity funds from the state, put together a multilanguage video telling the governor what the school needs and have sent photos with the same message to the governor and sent postcards to legislators urging them to stand against Cuomo's policies.

Additionally, much to the chagrin of the old boys network in town, we instituted policies in Erie County and at the ECIDA that mandate pay equity for female employees because there is no reason why a women should be paid less than a man for the same work.

«Today the ECIDA board approved the Pay Equity Policy that will force businesses that apply for ECIDA programs to duplicate work.

James held a rally at City Hall on Sunday to call on the State to fully fund city schools in line with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity and to criticize Gov. Cuomo's education reform policies.

«For the last 18 months, the College has actively engaged with the policy development process, from the publication in July 2010 of the Health and Social Care White Paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, through to the various parliamentary stages of the bill, including the Future Forum's «Listening Exercise» last April and May.

The pay equity policy, pushed by Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, is intended to make sure that companies receiving tax breaks through the Erie County IDA are complying with existing laws requiring that men and women receive equal pay for similar work.

Among the proposals not included by the Assembly: a sweeping policy change that would give the state wide latitude in determining value - based payments for health care providers, a plan to allow private equity investing in hospitals and a plan that would limit how much providers can charge for drugs in Medicaid - managed care plans.