However, there is no guarantee that the dollar cost averaging program will result in
higher policy values or will otherwise be successful.
In rising markets, it gives you investment flexibility and automatically locks in
your highest policy value on your living benefit anniversary.
This rider enables your spouse, if he or she is the sole primary beneficiary, to continue your policy upon your death as the new owner, at a potentially
higher policy value that includes any amount that would be payable under the Enhanced Beneficiary Benefit Rider.
Not exact matches
Besides its famous «no assholes»
policy, the investment firm gets
high marks for a company culture that
values integrity and teamwork.
FMS earnings before tax as a percentage of FMS total revenue and FMS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 4.0 % and 4.8 %, respectively, both down 60 basis points from the prior year, primarily reflecting
higher depreciation due to vehicle residual
value policy changes and lower used vehicle sales results.
More than half of the
highest -
valued startups in the U.S. were founded by immigrants, according to a study from the National Foundation for American
Policy.
«But if that
policy is worth $ 5 million, your company's
value will automatically be $ 5 million
higher after your death.
California's «NEM 2.0»
policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a
higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.
Because the
higher standard deduction will exceed the
value of itemized deductions for many taxpayers, the Tax
Policy Center estimates that more than 25 million families will stop itemizing in 2018 — that's more than half the number of people who have itemized in recent years.
Like other UL
policies, an IUL
policy offers a
high degree of flexibility and customization and accumulates tax - free
value above and beyond its initial face amount.
Speaking to the
High River Times in April 2015, Mr. Fraser was quoted as saying «I will emphasize the Pro-Life
values of Albertans, making constituents and other candidates aware of the issues surrounding abortion and how they are directly relevant to provincial
policy... We should de-fund abortion and fund the life affirming alternatives of crisis pregnancy support, parental support, and adoption.»
«From a political perspective, the goal of the start - up visas is to demonstrate they're bringing in the sexiest,
highest -
value people,» said Madeleine Sumption, assistant director for research at the Washington - based Migration
Policy Institute, who has studied start - up visa programs worldwide.
The need to address poverty's basic causes, including the unhealthy concentration of America's land and resources in the hands of so few owners — who have tended to misappropriate land
values — ought to be
high on our religious and public
policy agendas.
The current telecommunications frenzy, is based largely on a «
high» communication
policy that
values rapid, long - distance transmission and devalues local, slow, dialogic communication.
Morgans analyst Belinda Moore said this shouldn't hinder Murray Goulburn's planned upgrades to its factories, part of its shift from producing commodities to
higher value - added products, because its gearing ratio would be about 43 per cent — well within its
policy range of 30 to 60 per cent.
Our Food Safety
Policy commits us to maintaining the
highest standards of safety and achieve full product traceability through the entire food processing and packaging
value chain.
I think an urgent decision at the
highest level must be taken by the Arsenal Board to the effect that the
policy of the Club setting a
value on a possible newcomer and then refusing to pay beyond that figure MUST BE ABANDONED.
This
policy is also flawed though, it has been deeply criticised for driving up the
value of homes, it reduces individual ownership of their biggest asset and even with the reduced cost, in places like London, the mortgage payments remain
high.
Things are even trickier with housing where Tory
policies such as «pay to stay», Right to Buy for housing association tenants, and forced sales of
high value council homes, have all made things worse while claiming to make things better.
This is true of all very
high value rare items even in a campaign with a liberal
policy of buying and selling magic items.
George Osborne could always be found arguing in Cabinet for studiously liberal
policies — fewer controls for entrepreneurs and
high -
value investors, care in dealing with genuine foreign students, and enthusiasm for letting in
high - spending tourists.
E.J. McMahon, founder and research director of the conservative Empire Center for Public
Policy in Albany, agreed that the impact of the change on homeowners would be limited to those with especially expensive homes — particularly downstate, where home
values are
higher.
Unilever was also a player in palm oil trader Wilmar's recent agreement to adopt a no - deforestation
policy, which prohibits its suppliers from establishing plantations on lands with large amounts of carbon — like peat soils — or lands with a
high conservation
value (ClimateWire, Dec. 8, 2013).
«Policymakers should also consider more clinically nuanced cost - sharing
policies that take medication
value into account, rather than subjecting all specialty drugs to
high cost sharing.»
The legal and
policy paradigm in genomics - which places a
high value on privacy - can conflict with the public health framework, in which individual rights can be overridden for the benefit of others [95].
The Association of Play Industries (API) campaigns at the
highest levels for
policy recognition of the
value of play.
Space limits an extended discussion here, but we note two conclusions from a 2012 article by Economic
Policy Institute researcher Monique Morrissey, who explains that «the logical implication of Richwine and Biggs's [pension] position is that public employers and taxpayers would be indifferent between current pension funding practices and investing in Treasury securities, even though this would triple the cost of pension benefits» and that R & B «selectively alternate between the cost of benefits to employers and the
value to workers, and inappropriately equate the latter with the often much
higher cost to individuals of obtaining equivalent benefits.»
The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in
policies for integral development of education in accordance with the
highest human
values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.
The number of students saying their university was «poor» or «very poor»
value had almost doubled since 2012, according to a survey published by the
Higher Education
Policy Institute (HEPI) and the
Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Play matters The API campaigns at the
highest levels for
policy recognition of the
value of play because the government is yet to acknowledge its vital importance in creating positive early experiences of physical activity for children.
Reflecting on this reality,
High Tech
High GSE's leaders have observed that the causes of the less - than - expected interest in their program seem to stem more from
policy than from the
value of their offering.
It campaigns at the
highest levels for recognition of the
value of play in
policy.
In addition, Brown hopes that on some practical level his research can contribute something of
value to
policy, research, and practice in
higher education.
The API is the voice of the UK play industry and campaigns at the
highest levels for
policy recognition of the
value of active play.
The API campaigns at the
highest levels for
policy recognition of the
value of play.
• The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee in the House of Commons should monitor and report on
higher education funding and provision each year, assessing the impact of changes on disadvantaged students, as well as mature and part - timers; • Better co-ordination between
higher education ministers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to rationalise student funding
policies across the UK; • An investigation by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) into the impact of the latest changes to grants and loans, to ensure
value for money for students and taxpayers; • Stronger evaluation of university spending of # 750m a year on outreach and access programmes to maximise their impact.
This pattern of state education
policy makers placing lower
value on the voices of a group of people and
higher value on individuals they have some connection to was prevalent across a number of findings.
Rather,
policy makers — particularly Republicans — seem to be nonresponsive (and, in some cases, intentionally unresponsive) to the
policy preferences of teachers when presented as an organized group, though they place relatively
high value on the voices of individual teachers.
This
policy brief from
Higher Ed for Higher Standards identifies clear strategies for developing aligned K — 12 and higher education goals and outlines how states can use those goals to drive strategic actions to support all youth on their path to attain a postsecondary credential of
Higher Ed for
Higher Standards identifies clear strategies for developing aligned K — 12 and higher education goals and outlines how states can use those goals to drive strategic actions to support all youth on their path to attain a postsecondary credential of
Higher Standards identifies clear strategies for developing aligned K — 12 and
higher education goals and outlines how states can use those goals to drive strategic actions to support all youth on their path to attain a postsecondary credential of
higher education goals and outlines how states can use those goals to drive strategic actions to support all youth on their path to attain a postsecondary credential of
value.
Hoyt also cited a recent
policy statement by the American Educational Research Association that cautions against using
value - added data in teacher evaluations and for
high - stakes purposes.
Brown spoke with the Education
Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP)-- she was a member of the 1984 Texas cohort — and shared her thoughts on what policymakers and
higher education leaders should know about Latino students and how they can be better supported in colleges and universities, as well as leadership lessons learned and the
value of her EPFP experience.
Schools and districts should implement the following
policy solutions to support, challenge, and
value high - achieving and
high - potential students of color.
E4E - New York Teacher
Policy Team member Maura Henry calls for improving testing in schools, while not forgetting the
value that
high quality assessments can...
These included a strong vision of and
value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting
high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other
policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.
In states and districts across the country,
policy makers who understand this recognize the
value of Board - certified teachers by rewarding them for voluntarily pursuing teaching's
highest credential.
Even though NCLB has failed to improve schools,
policy makers continue to expand
high - stakes test uses such as «
value - added» teacher evaluation.
A study released yesterday by Mathematica
Policy Research (and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education) titled «Teachers with High «Value Added» Can Boost Test Scores in Low - Performing Schools» implies that, yet again, value - added estimates are the key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and policy decisions about America's public school tea
Policy Research (and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education) titled «Teachers with
High «
Value Added» Can Boost Test Scores in Low - Performing Schools» implies that, yet again, value - added estimates are the key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and policy decisions about America's public school teac
Value Added» Can Boost Test Scores in Low - Performing Schools» implies that, yet again,
value - added estimates are the key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and policy decisions about America's public school teac
value - added estimates are the key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and
policy decisions about America's public school tea
policy decisions about America's public school teachers.
Pathways to College Credentials and Careers: In order to increase the economic mobility of low - income and minority students, the Joyce Foundation will support state and federal
policy work to: (1) better prepare students for college and career through early college credits, work - based learning, and
high school interventions to reduce college remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic
value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the
highest economic payoffs.
This
policy brief identifies clear strategies for developing aligned K — 12 and
higher education goals and outlines how states can use those goals to drive strategic actions to support all youth on their path to attain a postsecondary credential of
value.
These and other successful initiatives include Early College
High Schools, STEM Academies, the PUENTE program, the AVID program, IDRA's Coca - Cola
Valued Youth Program, along with many others as described by the Educational
Policy Institute (EPI) and the Educational
Policy Improvement Center (EPIC).