Sentences with phrase «for affluent families»

Butlers work for affluent families and are mainly responsible for household management.

«Beating the benchmark isn't the only measure of success,» argues Dan Hallett, vice-president of HighView Financial Group, a portfolio management firm for affluent families.

If you find a good fund manager, invest mainly in his or her broad - based funds and avoid narrowly focused sector funds, advises Dan Hallett, vice-president of HighView Financial Group, an investment counsel firm for affluent families.

It curls around the western shore of a small lake just outside Algonquin Bay, Ontario, providing a pine - scented refuge for affluent families with young children, yuppies fond of canoes and kayaks, and an artful population of chipmunks chased by galumphing dogs.

Intended to provide the driving experience of a car with the utility of a larger truck, the RX immediately found a market and became the crossover of choice for affluent families across the United States.

We design, implement and maintain custom - tailored wealth management strategies and solutions for affluent families, business owners, highly compensated professionals, and those who are facing a significant life transition.

Craig has been managing discretionary investment portfolios for affluent families, trusts and foundations since the early nineties.

Not exact matches

Recently, Aaron and I came out of retirement to launch Kennon - Green & Co., a global asset management firm that specializes in value investing for affluent and high net worth individuals, families, and institutions.

When launched our global asset management company for affluent and high net worth individuals, families and institutions that wanted to invest alongside us, we made sure our initial Form ADV disclosures contained discussions about some of the risks.

For more than two decades, APEX consultants have guided affluent individuals and their families through the complexities of foreign investing, and of obtaining second citizenship and residency.

For years, starting in the 1990s, Perry and his family attended the same affluent Austin - area United Methodist church that Bush 43 did.

Designed to meet the demands of «Boise's growing numbers of affluent families, who sought high - status schools filled with high - status children,» it is a school «created by elites for the children of elites.»

Ms. Agrell suggests that stamps in children's passports are merely status symbols for the aforementioned «affluent, affected parents», and even quotes the godfather of travel guidebooks, Arthur Frommer, as questioning how children or parents benefit from family travel.

In the mid-20th century, people believed that using formula was healthier for babies and showed that a family was affluent.

«Plans to hand free school meals to the under - 8s across the country were mired in chaos last night after senior Tories denounced the proposal to pay for the lunches of affluent children... London Mayor Boris Johnson rejected the plans, saying that better - off families should pay for their children's food.

But yes, I think there's an absolute disregard be that for kids, or disabled, or struggling families... I guess it comes out of the Thatcherite policies of the 80s to sort of reward the affluent.

Victims also come from all backgrounds — affluent and educated communities included, says Allison Bressler, a co-founder of A Partnership for Change, a nonprofit dedicated to ending family abuse and intimate partner violence.

Think about how many people born in very affluent families end up feeling bored, taking for granted all the wealth they have and feeling depressed (Of course is not always the case but, it does happen).

IJL Elite is acknowledged as the preeminent matchmaking service for professionals, executives and individuals that are affluent, financially secure or with extraordinary personal or family circumstances.

Dr. Neberich also explains why, from an evolutionary perspective, women desire financial compatibilty at the more affluent end of the scale «This desire for security... may be explained by women's natural role as the more dependent person during the phase of starting a family.»

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Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson) and adapted for the screen by John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave sees an affluent black American — a violinist and family man born free in New York state - pitched into a waking nightmare when he's kidnapped by slavers in 1841.

The Rush Hour 2 beauty and her actor husband will executive produce Family For Sale, a comedy which centres upon the divorce of an affluent...

A struggling family that's determined to make a better life for themselves in one of America's most idyllic cities is learning the hard way that the affluent community isn't as glamorous as they initially believed.

The elites, the wealthy families that have a disproportionate influence on politics, clearly recognize the dysfunction of large urban school districts and have sought refuge in affluent suburban districts for their own children.

This situation is not only a sad outgrowth of America's socioeconomic divide but also a huge problem for universities and employers, considering that birthrates are flat or down among the affluent white suburban families that have traditionally sent their kids to college.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

This was especially true for low - income children; in fact, their scores were similar to those of affluent children, even after taking into account a variety of family factors, including parents» education and intelligence.

Yet we should also concede that intact families, communities with strong social capital, and households with plentiful resources for good health care, healthy meals, enrichment programs, and the like give affluent children an advantage that most of their poor peers will never be able to overcome.

For example, a school that serves largely affluent families may create the illusion that it has a great principal, when family backgrounds are the key cause of high achievement.

Even before the TCJA reforms, the benefits of 529 plans were greatest for more affluent families.

First, as noted in the previous section, the distributional characteristics of the benefit are heavily tilted to affluent families who have a significant state tax burden and can save for private school tuition.

Third, the reforms necessary for 529 accounts to offer real advantages to less affluent families paying for private K - 12 education would result in a complex system.

For middle - class and affluent children, this kind of constant monitoring, advising, and problem - solving tends to be baked into their lives, whether through aggressive helicopter parenting or simply having friends and family members who've been to college and are neither awed by the process nor intimidated by pitfalls.

Most of these families, I suspect, will be relatively affluent and well - educated — either capable of paying the difference between private school tuition and the value of the ESA or able to afford for one parent to stay home with the kids and play teacher.

The Nevada program is explicitly not targeting low - performing schools or low - income families but rather is being made available to all, including affluent families who can already exercise choice by locating in a good school district or paying tuition for a private school.

The same should hold true for more affluent families choosing to opt out of the annual assessment.

Students receive preference within their geographic catchment areas, and students from affluent families are more likely to have the preparation needed for admissions to selective schools.

And, as before, to the extent that price is associated with quality and long - term outcomes, the disparity between affluent and poor families in the price being paid for center - based care is of concern.

Because the standard deviation for payments is so large (skewed upward by affluent families) I present the median for payments, along with the mean.

In other words, the financial pain of purchasing daycare and preschool services is less for more affluent compared to less affluent families, whereas the absolute price of the service is higher for more affluent families, with likely impacts on quality.

At the same time, gaps persist among students from low - income families and their more affluent peers, for English language learners, and for many minority students when compared with their Asian and white classmates.

Both counties are criticised for an «unacceptably wide» gap between the achievements of young people who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) and those from more affluent families.

Don't forget that in many urban areas there are clusters of affluent families able to access high performing schools, while others» student bodies include concentrations of the poorest families, for example.

Quite often, public schools of choice are to low - income families what private schools are to more affluent families, Swagerty says, adding that she loves the fact that charters give low - income families the option to «make smart decisions about what's best for their children.»

And even more, White and affluent families who audaciously criticize families for choosing to look for better school options, haven't opted into those same schools.

But the union and NAACP also want to limit better educational options for low - income families who can't afford private schools and can't afford to move to an affluent neighborhood with decent public schools.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

One hundred and sixty black leaders, part of the charter lobby, signed a letter encouraging the NAACP to back off, saying: «For many urban Black families, charter schools are making it possible to do what affluent families have long been able to do: rescue their children from failing schools.»

That kind of system — if it is truly against any form of expanded school choice options for every child, not just the affluent or the lucky — stands behind the disempowerment of that family and the academic suffering of that child.