Sentences with phrase «mean less investment»

Higher rates mean less investment, lower stock prices and more risk of financial instability.

But lower prices usually mean lower profit margins, which usually mean less investment in keeping the product current, which means more price pressure, lower margins?and so it goes.

Not exact matches

There's a huge gap between the kind of investment you make in «buying» trust versus less expensive means, like honesty transparency.

There are even more abstruse explanations, for example, that computer equipment accounts for a growing portion of capital investment but has become less expensive over time, meaning fewer dollars spent.

This may mean making less money this year than we otherwise would, but we're confident our investments will pay off down the road.

That particular investment was down about 17.5 percent through mid-October, which means a $ 40,000 investment made in January is worth $ 7,000 less today.

It means Uber can forgo lofty rhetoric to make itself a less - risky investment, says Arun Sundararajan, who specializes in the sharing economy at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Declining assets generally mean less revenue for investment managers, who earn a percentage based on the value of the investments.

The depressed prices mean lower prices for refiners and less pump pain for North American drivers, but it's hardly good news for Canada's oil industry, which spent billions on oilsands projects after world crude prices had risen high enough to justify the investment.

Garnering less enthusiasm were considerations such as asset allocation strategy (balancing an investment portfolio to take into account goals, risk tolerance and length of time), with a mean of 4.7, and understanding price - earning ratios for traded stock, which saw a mean of 4.3.

These high fees come out of the employees» investments, meaning they'll have less for retirement, he says.

«I'll spend as much time with you as I can if it means less time with your photographer,» quips the CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as he sits down for an interview.

That means some financial advisors — basically, brokers and insurance agents - will once again be able to give conflicted investment advice by recommending high - priced 401 (k) investments that pay them rich commissions over less expensive - but comparable - alternatives on May 7, 2018.

Putting Nelson Petz on DuPont's board struck many of them as a low - cost means, with little downside risk, of keeping DuPont «in play» and signaling the shareholders» desire for more spinoffs and less investment in long - term capital projects, including research and development.

«If you assume that for many years China has been misallocating investment (by which I simply mean that the resulting increase in productivity generated by the investment was less than the correctly calculated debt - servicing cost)...» How about not «assuming» and offer proof?

We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies view early childhood education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents with young children as «public goods,» meaning investments that, absent public support, would be insufficiently made from the perspective of society's well - being.

That means the investments that it does make are generally in less - desirable startups.

And that means one has an advantageous situation where the business would have to do a lot wrong and become worth a lot less before the investment becomes worth less than one paid.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

According to Goolam Ballim, group economist at Johannesburg - based Standard Bank, improvements in public finances over the past decade mean less revenues now go into debt servicing and capital repayment, opening the way for more national investment in infrastructure.

Most bonds (not junk bonds) represent a less risky investment than most stocks, which means that stocks have to offer a higher return as a premium for increased risk.

«And that means you're going to get even less investment, because they are looking at future tax rates.»

Suggesting you liquidate some investments, or defer investing for a while, to build your emergency fund means less pay for your advisor.

Moreover, passive investments can be less liquid in volatile markets, and reduced central - bank stimulus could mean lower correlations.

If an investor or fellow entrepreneur tells you that you will save legal fees by doing your seed round with notes instead of stock, what she really means is that the kind of investment that can be done with a note or notes will be less formal, will involve less scrutiny and due diligence, than a round that is priced.

This allowed us to get our business started with less capital investment and meant we could start operating sooner.

If food and gas prices were included in the CPI, the rate of inflation would be closer to 10 percent, and, at that rate, the net purchasing power of earnings in ten years would be less than the initial investment, meaning you would have lost money.

* EU members which are meant to treat other EU investment no less favourably than domestic ** restrictions recently increased.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

But over that period the OBR currently expects average growth of just 1.7 per cent a year — 0.4 per cent a quarter - which means lower living standards, less tax, less investment and many billions less deficit reduction too.

The second, a report from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) outlines that overall in the UK the «absence of a clear strategy has meant that investments and improvement to our transport system have been slower to develop, are more expensive and deliver less».

This outlook might mean a less research - intensive economy, even as other nations are pointedly ramping up their own investments.

But if technology has an increasingly important part to play in enabling the less formal areas of learning, does this mean organizations should be channelling most of their investment into the area where most learning takes place — informal learning?

What this means is that capital investment in inventory is less of a challenge for publishers — large or small.

This smaller investment means publishers can be less selective and need to put less of their own effort into making a book a success.

Rebecca Brandywyne spoke for many when she remarked: «the hard reality is that the vast majority of authors can not earn even a comfortable - much less a luxurious - living from their writing careers, and, unless they have access to other sources of funding (such as a working spouse, investments and dividends, or an inheritance), are frequently compelled to take other jobs as their primary means of financial support.»

For Canadian discount brokerages, competing against «robo» style automation means that DIY investing is going to have to feel like less work, and to achieve that will take continuous investment in technology and, most importantly, listening to clients.

Most bonds (not junk bonds) represent a less risky investment than most stocks, which means that stocks have to offer a higher return as a premium for increased risk.

To claim 2 out of 5 years that means that the investment period has to be 3 years or less.

This means any income you receive from investments held for less than a year must be included in your taxable income for the year.

Older investors or investors with short time frames, who will be using their investment income soon, will want safer, less volatile investments, even if this means the returns are lower.

I mean, are you considering the possibility of having less than enough savings when you retire, only because of an excess of conservatism with your investments?

Other factors which will be taken into account include time until retirement (less time means less aggressive portfolios) with more of an emphasis on conservative investments such as cash and treasury bonds.

Plus your non-registered investment income is taxable, meaning you keep less of your returns compared to those in your RRSP and TFSA.

This means if you delay your investments by 10 years, then despite doubling the investment you will get final value less than half of what you would have got if you have started 10 years earlier with the original investment amount.

This means you have a better sense of how much your investment is worth, and less uncertainty is always a good thing.

Longer breakevens mean slower paybacks and a less attractive investment.

That means on 3 separate occasions, you would have opened up your account statement, or read your investment advisor's end of year client letter, and seen the value of your investment cut in half (or less!)

This means the overall benefit of a Roth conversion increases when the treatment of taxable investments becomes less favorable — and it's scheduled to become a lot less favorable in 2013.

Passive management means the fund investments are determined by an index or group of stocks and will usually change much less frequently.