Sentences with phrase «fee model of»

The Freedom Party frequently attacks ORF as left - wing propaganda machine and has called for an end to the licence - fee model of financing public broadcasting.

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Tesla's future as a mass - market carmaker hinges on efficient, automated production of the Model 3, which more than 400,000 people have already reserved, paying $ 1,000 refundable fees to do so.

That doesn't leave Square a lot of wiggle room if the credit card companies decide to raise interchange fees: «Because we generally charge our sellers a flat rate,» higher swipe fees «could make our pricing look less competitive, lead us to change our pricing model, or adversely affect our margins,» the company said in its prospectus.

Not only does it represent a potential conflict every time an advisor builds a portfolio for his clients, it also recalls some of the worst practices of the brokerage model - like «shelf space» fees wherein a mutual fund company engages in a payola of sorts to make it onto a brokerage firm's platform or «recommended list.»

The way that we do it, is we take the wholesale buying club model that you'd find at a place like Costco, we bring it online, and charge an annual membership fee,» says Nick Green, co-founder and co-CEO of Thrive Market.

But in October — less than three months after its launch — Jet changed its business model and dropped its $ 50 membership fee it once said would be its sole source of profit.

(Weebly works on a freemium model giving most of its features, including most webpage creation tools and hosting, away for free and charging a small fee of $ 3 to $ 5 a month for pro tools like larger file uploads.)

Conrad's research also shaped the crucial decision to give away the Zenefits software gratis, with no contracts or hidden fees — a model he co-opted from insurance brokers who sell their business customers not only insurance but also payroll systems and other administrative solutions, sharing a percentage of the resulting profits.

She then worked for a couple of wealth managers with «convoluted» fee - based models based on a client's assets under management, their net worth and their earned income.

In 2000, Dale launched a brokerage called Realtysellers that offered different levels of service and lower fees to home sellers, breaking from the old full - service model that saw agents involved in every part of the transaction, including advertising, showings and negotiating the close.

Under Jet's original model, the company planned to rely on the membership fees as its exclusive source of profits.

Best Buy's initial reasoning for charging $ 1,099 and $ 1,249 instead of following Apple's $ 999 and $ 1,149 pricing model was that the additional fee allowed it to give its customers more flexibility.

In addition to the different models of crowdfunding, there are varying fee structures.

There's no one universal model for these policies, but they generally involve one of two things: a requirement that developers either make a certain percentage of their housing units available at below - market rates, or that has them pay a fee into a fund for affordable housing.

Recognizing that this business model was highly replicable, the company switched to a subscription model that allowed a customer to rent a specific amount of DVDs per month for a fee.

The proposed regulations, put out for public comment Jan. 4, would ban high upfront fees and restrict the kinds of contracts debt settlement companies can offer, effectively outlawing the business model most popular with, among others, Cambridge Life Solutions, a company Matt McClearn and I wrote about in this magazine last fall.

According to WordStream, PPC stands for pay - per - click, «a model of internet marketing in which advertisers pay a fee each time one of their ads is clicked.»

His business model allows immigrants to transfer as little as $ 2 worth of minutes at a time to family overseas, with no fee to the sender or recipient.

The resulting downward pressure on trading fees broke the business model of many brokers.

That's the idea behind the addictive mobile games developed by Kabam, which has harnessed the «free to play» model of offering free games but while layering on extra content for a fee.

Freelancers are also now using this model quite often, and most freelancers have a good number of clients on a project - based fee.

Also, the hourly fee model is quite popular, regardless of agency size.

Paul Black lists out three big trends to watch for in health IT this year, namely: a continuing shift to value - based care models (rather than the fee - for - service, volume - oriented paradigm which still dominates the sector); digital health infrastructure interoperability that makes it possible for different systems to talk to each other and coordinate care; and an increased focus on precision medicine and «genomically aware care» that can help take a lot of the guesswork out of medicine.

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.

Mosaic's business model is similar to that of a bank: It charges an origination fee up front to the developer and takes a 1 % «skim» on top of the loan.

Subscription - based models a la Netflix or Rdio — where users pay a regular fee for access to the service's library without owning the movies or music — will be increasingly dominant, said Dina Leytes, practice group chair of intellectual property and new media for Griesing Law in Philadelphia.

This February, Manitoba followed suit, passing a regulation — modelled on an existing Alberta law — that limits settlement fees to 10 per cent of debt and bans upfront fees entirely.

Even when we add in the annual fee in the second year, our model cardholder still earns a larger amount of cash back with the Capital One Spark Cash card:

Elite SEM's model is a disruptive model in the agency space in which it gives a large percentage of the fees to the account managers and making them all «intrapreneurs» — essentially entrepreneur but within an existing firm.

Each platform operates on a different model, with a different way of charging transaction fees, and caters to a different way of running a crowdfunding campaign.

When Tesla revealed that Model S 70 owners with the 70 kWh battery could in fact unlock an extra 5 kWh for a fee bringing it to a total of 75 kWh, it sent the rest of the auto industry a loud and clear message that the company can and will continue to streamline ways to continuously improve upon its vehicles via over the air updates.

On Wednesday, Dalbar introduced the Profit - Based Pricing Model Calculator, which it says goes beyond «traditional assets under management pricing in which clients are charged an arbitrary basis point fee that is independent of the cost of servicing that client.»

That puts us in the top 20 % of all US - based franchisors — even better, the Franchise 500 is a purely objective ranking of businesses that use the franchise model based on financial strength, stability growth rate, and size of the system, not a sponsored ranking that requires a «token sponsorship fee.»

Retirement plan administrators, most of which play other roles in the value chain, will need to reconsider their business model as 12b - 1 fees for product placements, their significant revenue source, come under pressure.

This is related to my simple dumb model of hedge fund fees.

By 2000, having ditched the pay - per - rental model in favor of monthly subscriptions and no late fees, Netflix offered to be acquired by Blockbuster for $ 50, but the brick - and - mortar chain wasn't interested.

Under the CSO model, the payday lender charges a brokering fee (usually $ 25 per $ 100) and the third - party lender charges fees and interest on the loan (usually 25 percent of the principal).

The Tim Hortons business model is built on franchisees, independent owners who pay a hefty start - up fee (close to $ 500,000) plus a percentage of sales to cover rent, royalties and advertising.

Our models include the Bank of North Dakota and public banks in other countries, which have put public money, such as property, income, sales and business taxes, fees and fines, to work for the public good, in cooperation with community banks and credit unions.

Tradestation, another discount online brokerage, also offers a fee - per - share model as an alternative of the fee - per - trade model.

Economic pressures to reduce legal costs is the primary force behind a growing number of firms moving away from the billable - hours model to new alternative billing models such as fixed, flat, blended or capped fees.

The numbers shown are modelled net of a management fee of 95bps p.a. and expense recovery of 50bps p.a., consistent with Wholesale B units in the NWQ Fiduciary Fund.

The gravamen of the complaint is that the asset - allocation models adopted by the retirement plans» investment committee departed dramatically from prevailing standards employed by professional investment managers and plan fiduciaries, and as a result, caused participants to suffer massive losses and excessive fees.

That is not their business model and in fact it is the model of an advance fee scheme.

• The slowly transitioning market structure from a fee - for - service payment model to one of bundled and value - based payments.

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Level fee advisors are exempt from the full requirements of the BICE, which serves as a strong incentive to adopt a level fee compensation model.

But this is to be expected if the higher fees are part of the compensation model (many advisors point out that 25 basis point 12b - 1 trails are a lot lower than 1 % asset management fees, and some active funds have modest expense ratios).

Even better, the Franchise 500 is a purely objective ranking of businesses that use the franchise model based on financial strength, stability growth rate, and size of system, not a sponsored ranking that requires a «token sponsorship fee.»

Holders of OMG tokens can use the innovative proof - of - stake model to earn transaction fees on a regular basis.