Sentences with phrase «low hurdle for»

Brokers who score well in this category maintain a low hurdle for clients to qualify for sub - $ 10 stock trades.

But he warned that could be changing: «There's a very low hurdle for that surprise because bond market yields are so low in the front end of the curve.

Selecting the Russell 2000 historically resulted in: 1) less return per unit of risk than could have been achieved with the S&P SmallCap 600, or 2) a lower hurdle for expensive active managers to gain outsized fees — more often than not for underperformance.

Not exact matches

For many people with low education and economic prospects, she said, those can become insurmountable hurdles.

We are notorious for our low ranking — 36th of 43 — among countries consistently surveyed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development for the hurdles raised for foreign investors wishing to acquire or take an important stake in domestic businesses.

As a whole, the American fracking experiment has been a financial disaster for many of its investors, who have been plagued by the industry's heavy borrowing, low returns, and bankruptcies, and the path to becoming profitable is lined with significant potential hurdles.

For non-accredited investors, these specialized eREITs ™ are an easy way to get specific regional real estate exposure with a low $ 1,000 hurdle since Fundrise has a West eREIT ™, Heartland eREIT ™, and East eREIT ™.

New legislation will lower the regulatory hurdles for foreign companies entering the Chinese market, but it is restricted to particular industries.

At some point in time, the next hurdle is that something gets legislated, or we're relying on monetary policy lower for longer.»

And my proposal does about the same thing — since if the public detests a Supreme Court decision they can simply overrule it via amendment — although it avoids going as low as 60 % for the final hurdle.

Online training lowers this hurdle so more qualified candidates can run for office.

They say that included a $ 35,000 payment from Cor Development to secure the governor's help redeveloping a state - owned tract of land in Syracuse known as the Inner Harbor, and a $ 90,000 - a-year «low - show» job for Percoco's wife from Kelly, a former executive at Competitive Power Ventures, to clear hurdles with the state to build power plants.

Like drugs, medical devices must receive regulatory approval before they can be marketed and sold — but the regulatory hurdles and costs are much lower for devices than they are for drugs.

«The hurdles for behavioral changes are far lower than the hurdles for life and death,» said Bigford, who worked with fish habitats at NOAA for more than three decades.

A lack of funding to complete basic repairs, fix stalled elevators, run air conditioners and pay for the electric bill to keep food refrigerated would all be significant hurdles for low - income tenants to overcome in such a situation.

Whether you've hit 34 and traded gym time for diaper changing or just toasted 49 with the lowest of the low - cal cocktails, you can maneuver around physical and day - to - day hurdles to stop pounds in their tracks.

If you suspect you're suffering from Low T and weight loss is becoming a serious hurdle, TRT might be a good option for you.

If you look at the following video, this is an example for a low - intensity plyometric exercise (disregarding that it is multilateral), because the hurdles are small and there is not a lot of impact on landing and taking off.

Using this formula, New Orleans wouldn't clear the first hurdle to become the go - to city for our theoretical low - SES family, since Louisiana is one of the poorest - performing states in the country on NAEP.

Chronic absence is especially challenging for students from low - income communities whose families face greater hurdles to getting to school and have fewer resources to make up for lost learning time.

DUNCAN: Low standards of the equivalent of setting up for a track and field event with hurdles set only a foot high.

The ballot referendum needs a simple majority for November passage, a lower bar than the hurdle it just passed in the House and Senate.

The last hurdle a student faces plagiarism in the content as it is a risk for a student because if any plagiarism is detected in the student's assignment, it could not only lead to low grades but also could get the student expelled from the college.

So in effort to make the society «indigenous», hurdles were put in front of ethnic Chinese students, meaning it was far harder for a non-Bumiputera (look it up, Google is your friend) student to get in to medicine and to graduate, whereas Bumiputera had fantastic support and needed lower marks to proceed.

Having played around with a Kindle for the first time at a recent New Year's Eve party, I would say that the iSlate has a pretty low bar to hurdle in terms of improved functionality / user experience.

We eliminate that hurdle here at Mortgages Unlimited for low and moderate income buyers in MN, WI, and SD with the HomeReady Mortgage from Fannie Mae (R).

In addition to low mortgage rates and rising job growth, the down payment hurdle is starting to shrink for creditworthy borrowers, including first - time homebuyers.»

The First Time Home Buyer Program assists individuals overcome the hurdle of these upfront costs with zero - interest down payment / closing cost loans of up to $ 20,000 for low - income, first - time homebuyers purchasing within the City of Corvallis.

The biggest hurdle for investors in Canada is that low - cost mutual funds and ETFs are being ignored by the commission - based advisors who dominate the industry.

The hurdle for help is low.

In addition to the 1.00 % (lower or higher) annual charge for AUM and the 5.75 % front end sales charge for getting into ICA and the 0.75 % ER and 12B1 fees, how exactly can most active funds overcome this hurdle?

We also continue to think that the low expenses and fully invested posture of Vanguard's bond - index funds creates a formidable hurdle for active bond managers to beat.

PEG ratios work for core and growth investors, but the PEG ratio hurdles needed for investment are lower than most investors think, so long as the expected rate of return (discount rate) is high.

That's just a ridiculously low hurdle, IMO, especially for a fund that employs leverage.

We eliminate that hurdle for low and moderate income buyers with the HomeReady Mortgage from Fannie Mae.

The hurdle for actively managed funds is simply too low.

Dogs must be both people and dog - friendly and in good physical condition for running and jumping low hurdles.

The Ahimsa low cost Spay / Neuter clinic removes one major hurdle, affordability, which exists for many rural Oklahoma households.

The plus side of mobile clinics is that they reach a lot of communities where travel might otherwise be a major hurdle, particularly for lower income folks.

This is one of the best travel bonuses we know of with a low spending hurdle for qualification.

The higher bonus - category earnings rates and lower new cardholder bonus hurdle may make the card a better fit for some.

My hope is that the lower price and comfort advantage enjoyed by PS VR will attract enough players to lead to a huge install base for Sony, and that in turn will attract enough developers to the platform to collectively figure out how to overcome these technical hurdles.

One hurdle is that the number of record - / extreme - events is very low and there is not enough data for the analysis.

The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday to overturn a lower court's decision to block a route for the pipeline, removing a hurdle.

This can be a huge hurdle for many newly solo practitioners who struggle to keep overhead and costs as low as possible.

But the new low could face additional hurdles, since the condition must be «directly related to one of the main purposes for which... [the funds] are expended» (quoting from Dole).

Will the courts allow a lower evidentiary hurdle for such cases?

This leaves us with a situation where though the bar is relatively low for the Plaintiff to overcome in terms of the evidence that they must offer, there are a number of hurdles in their way in order to prove they have a prima facie case.

The irony in the steep drop in seeking approval for wiretaps is seizure of private communications by local, provincial, and national police is now likely higher than ever and the legal hurdle is arguably much lower than the test for what are known as Part VI authorizations under the Criminal Code.

Third, they lowered significantly the hurdle that faces an applicant for an order that the court appoint an independent chairperson for a shareholders» meeting.