Sentences with phrase «less financial pressure»

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Firms in Canada's financial sector are under less pressure than their counterparts in, say, Europe or Japan, where negative interest rates are out in force.

Costs are both financial, including listing fees and the expenses associated with mandatory disclosures and other regulatory requirements, and less tangible, such as the perceived burden of quarterly earnings releases, the risk of being targeted by activist investors, and higher visibility that can result in political or competitive pressure.

Part of the reason for this older generation's view may be due to their belief that, by comparison, their children's generation faces more financial pressures (61 per cent) and is less prepared for retirement (59 per cent).

When asked about how financial pressures affect pupils, 72 % said they were more likely to be absent from school, 65 % said they were less able to concentrate in lessons, 60 % said they caused behaviour problems and 40 % said they felt alienated and disaffected.

«This is understandable in some regions where less developed countries face competing pressures for limited financial resources, but it is notable that this threat is not addressed in design codes for at - risk European countries,» the final paper says.

The judicial branch of governments may be less subject to pressures from special financial interests than the executive and legislative branches, and the courts are expected to protect the rights of all people, including the less powerful.

And downward price pressure on ebooks means we ultimately get paid less, which means it's harder for us to make the living we do, which means both our ability and our financial incentives to write the stories readers want to see are compromised.

With index - tracking exchange - traded funds charging fees that are far less than actively managed mutual funds, the higher - cost investment options that AllianceBernstein (NYSE: AB), Hartford Financial (NYSE: HIG), and other active - management firms have within some 529 plans come under greater pressure from the state board established to oversee the plans.

With pensions and Social Security providing less financial security than in the past — and so much about the future of the economy being uncertain — the pressure is on for working Americans to save as much as they can for retirement.

The heavy hand of the fossil fuel industry works mostly in legal ways such as the «I'm an Energy Voter» campaign in the U.S. Failure of executive and legislative branches to deal with climate change makes it essential for courts, less subject to pressure and bribery from special financial interests, to step in and protect young people, as they did minorities in the case of civil rights.

The judicial branch of governments may be less subject to pressures from special financial interests than the executive and legislative branches, and the courts are expected to protect the rights of all people, including the less powerful.

Client demands, financial pressure to do more with less and the increasing sophistication of technology are driving law firms to innovate.

The researchers say the increase in vulnerability is the result of a complex set of issues such as increased access to technology, living in a fast - paced environment, more financial pressure on parents and caregivers and families with less time to spend with children.

60 % of seniors feel that the financial pressures faced by many young Americans these days is much worse than what past generations face, and young Americans are likely to be the first generation to live less well than the generations that preceded them.