Sentences with phrase «higher than commissions»

Costs are always important in investing, but don't forget that opportunity costs can be much higher than commissions and fees.

-- Except as provided in subparagraph (C), not later than January 1, 2014, and not less frequently than every 4 years thereafter, the Commission shall review the effect of this paragraph and shall, as necessary, reduce the number of Federal renewable electricity credits per megawatt hour issued under this paragraph for any given energy source or technology, but not below 1, to ensure that such number is no higher than the Commission determines is necessary to make distributed renewable generation facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.

Not only is an investment of over $ 200,000 the biggest the average consumer will ever make, but a commission of over $ 5,000 is surely higher than the commission someone makes selling you a car or any number of much less expensive investments.

Not exact matches

Hotel and vacation rentals are higher - margin businesses than selling flights, as airline commissions have shriveled and carriers try to drive more traffic to their own websites, where they also offer co-branded credit cards and vacation packages.

Understanding the Landscape: Access to Capital by High - Growth Women - Owned Businesses, research commissioned by the National Women's Business Council, recently released that female entrepreneurs start companies with 50 percent less capital than male entrepreneurs.

With Hunters, you need to pay them a higher portion of their compensation in commission - perhaps as high as 100 %, but certainly no less than 50/50 of salary and commission or you risk losing their aggressiveness.

For instance, we want to know whether a financial advisor recommending a particular product will receive a higher commission than they would on an alternative.

This happens most often in sales, like when commission rates are much higher for new customers than existing customers.

According to a study commissioned by his company and conducted by IHL Group, «out - of - stocks» accounted for $ 634.1 billion in lost retail sales for the year ended in the spring — 39 percent higher than in 2012.

The Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission announced late Thursday that it decided to take that step after a preliminary investigation found that big carriers are «are charging, or planning to charge» smaller domestic rivals «significantly higher wholesale roaming rates» than they charge their U.S. peers.

The Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission said on Thursday it is taking that step after a preliminary analysis found the big carriers «are charging, or planning to charge» smaller domestic rivals «significantly higher wholesale roaming rates» than U.S. peers such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc..

Historically, advisors have been compensated for the sale of variable annuity products on a commission basis, which is believed to motivate advisors to recommend products because of their high commission value, rather than because they are in the client's best interests.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

According to a confidential survey commissioned by Hockey Canada last year and obtained by The Globe and Mail, the 1,300 parents surveyed had an average household income roughly 15 per cent higher than the national median.

The following social democratic successor, George Papandreou, was then accused of claiming the deficit was higher than it really was in order to prompt the intervention of the troika, the tripartite body composed of the European Commission, European Central Bank, and International Monetary Fund.

It might not be enough to buy more than one or two bonds, at a high commission cost.

In its Oct. 30 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, PGDx said the final amount of the round, expected to close in the coming weeks, could be higher or lower than the $ 111.5 million target.

However, if the appraised value of the home is more than a few percentage points higher than the lender's expectation for what that value should be, the lender may ask to commission a second, verifying appraisal.

John is the only Gospel to portray Jesus as different in nature from the prophets, as more than the culminating high point of the succession of people called by God and commissioned with special tasks.

One retailer told the Financial Review his prices on Amazon Marketplace would need to be higher than prices on his own website and stores to cover Amazon's 15 per cent commission.

An ongoing commitment to innovation and high - value production are key reasons why the UK's food and drink industry has emerged from recession in better shape than many other manufacturing sectors, according to a new report commissioned by the Food and Drink Federation from the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge.

«The only thing more exciting than shopping Peru's world - famous, exquisite, handcrafted silver, high quality alpaca wool and pima cotton at Peru Show will be doing that while also enjoying Peruvian wines, signature pisco cocktails, ceviches and gourmet super foods, multi-variety potato and organic quinoa dishes, and more,» Conrado Falco, economist, Trade Commission of Peru in New York said.

Don't Forget the Juice The problem with Team Totals is the same problem that all proposition bets have, the «juice» or commission charged on them is higher than on the main betting lines.

September 7 — The transfer window just closed saw player agents earn more than $ 76 million in commissions England, once again the highest value market in Europe for football's intermediaries.

Finally, on September 30th, the New York Times reported on a telephone survey of over 1,000 former NFL players conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and commissioned by league which found, alarmingly, that former players were being diagnosed with Alzheimer's or similar memory - related diseases at a rate 19 times higher than the normal rate for men aged 30 through 49.

09.11.2012 HUMAN Healthy Vending Giving Away $ 2 Million to Schools & Businesses That Remove Junk Food Vending Machines Seeking to make healthy food more convenient than junk food, HUMAN (or HealthyVending.com) also guarantees locations higher annual revenue commissions.

- A fair cap on household benefits - not one that costs more than it saves, and which takes account of housing costs in different parts of the country — with an independent body, like the Low Pay Commission, advising on whether the cap should be higher in high - cost housing areas like London, but potentially lower in other parts of the country;

Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan says the number of degraded baffle bolts at Unit 3 was higher than expected.

Lippman acknowledged in a video address to the judiciary that after going without an increase since January 1995, New York's judges were hoping for something higher than the 27.3 percent bump they would receive by 2014 under the commission's recommendation.

The Water Industry Commission for Scotland has consistently praised Scottish Water for its high quality provision, having more than tripled its Overall Performance Assessment rating (OPA) rating since 2002.

Under the Tennessee Promise program, more than 16,200 students were enrolled in the 2015 - 16 school year at 41 institutions across the state, including at 13 community colleges, 27 colleges of applied technology and other eligible institutions offering an associate's degree program, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

As 1010 WINS» Sonia Rincon and WCBS 880's Alex Silverman reported, it was the second hearing for the commission, and turnout was far higher than the first.

He said despite the short notice, the Commission has no option than to respect the orders of the Highest Court of the land.

Cuomo's second tax commission is weighing a proposal with more than $ 1 billion in mostly property tax cuts, but debate over former Gov. George Pataki's plan to slash the personal - income tax on the highest earners has helped delay the release of the group's report.

Longford - Westmeath — The current population levels in Longford - Westmeath are fine for this constituency to remain as a 4 - seat constituency (with a population per TD ratio 0.6 % higher than the state average), but the return of the Castlepollard area to join with the rest of Westmeath county in this constituency would probably not be feasible as this would leave the constituency with a population per TD ratio that would be 7.75 % higher than the state average (close to the 7.89 % maximum degree of variance permitted by past Commission reports).

Donations to de Blasio's shuttered nonprofit group have been under high scrutiny for more than a year now, with investigations by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Three people familiar with the commission's deliberations told Capital that rather than an income - tax cut, which was hinted at by committee co-chair and former governor George Pataki, committee members are instead focusing on some sort of property tax «circuit - breaker,» where individuals would get a break on local levies if their property taxes were adjudged to be too high as a function of their income.

Yakubu said, «Given the high stakes of conducting elections in developing countries, electoral commissions must understandably be worried about the twin issues of communication and security especially in situations where data reside with and is directly transmitted to the tallying centres through offshore vendors rather than exclusively controlled within national boundaries by election monitoring bodies.

That means it bust the # 700,000 cap on spending by third party groups by at least 10 %, and the Commission said the «unlawful over-spend may well have been considerably higher than that».

Emails released by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) watchdog under freedom of information laws showed that the Department of Health under Labour tried to stop details emerging of a hospital scandal involving higher - than - normal death rates.

The Electoral Commission said a total of 19.1 m votes were cast across Great Britain, giving a provisional turnout of 42 %, higher than many had predicted.

Today, the Parliament said that the European Union should spend more money on data collection, controls, and enforcement than the commission had proposed, and less on modernizing Europe's fleet, which would lead to a higher fishing capacity.

NHS England has lost its appeal over a High Court ruling that it has the legal power to commission PrEP, a drug that has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection in people who are at high risk by more than 90 per cHigh Court ruling that it has the legal power to commission PrEP, a drug that has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection in people who are at high risk by more than 90 per chigh risk by more than 90 per cent.

Our elite tiers pay higher commissions than anyone in the industry.

Through the Global Healing Center Affiliate Program you can earn commissions on more than 60 high - quality products including dietary supplements, organic skin care products, complete cleansing systems, and ebooks about maximizing health.

YouGov research, commissioned by the Education Support Partnership, shows that three quarters (75 per cent) of 1,250 school and college staff and leaders surveyed said they had experienced psychological, physical or behavioural symptoms because of work, which is significantly higher than the UK working population overall (62 per cent).

Amid reports that overweight pupils underperform academically — data obtained from at least six studies by Scottish PHD student Anne Martin show that children who are obese at 11 achieve lower than average marks in maths, science and English at 16 — and findings that there is a higher incidence of serious childhood obesity in London than New York, figures like the London Health Commission's Lord Darzi are claiming that the issue is «at breaking point.»

«The main issue is our costs are higher than probably anyone else in the U.S.,» said James «Bubba» Shivler, the director of the commission, which adopted the policy last month.

New elementary school teachers who were well - prepared in preservice programs to teach reading expressed greater confidence in their knowledge and skills, fostered richer literacy environments in their classrooms, and helped their pupils achieve higher levels of reading comprehension than did other teachers, according to the National Commission on Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation in Reading Instruction.

«Children from high - income backgrounds who show signs of low academic ability at age five, are 35 % more likely to become high earners than their poorer peers who show early signs of high ability,» Ms Greening told a Social Mobility Commission event.