Sentences with phrase «over past decades»

Over the past decades, Kathy and her partners have built a firm that is reshaping the way high net worth families preserve, nurture and grow their wealth.

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

«Taking into account all these factors, the index actually dropped by 0.002 to 0.473 from 0.475 in 2011, the first decline over the past decades,» he argued.

«A bear market in bonds calls for more than a global cyclical upswing, as not all forces that dragged yields down over the past decades have suddenly vanished,» argued Peter van der Welle, a strategist at Robeco.

Glassman, founder and president of Glassman Wealth Services, said that «the two have been trained very differently over the past decades.

The goal is for legal medical marijuana to bring back jobs lost over the past decades by the decline in the steel industry.

Chriss pegs growth in the contingent work force to structural changes in employment over the past decades, including a decline in enrollment in defined - benefit pension plans and growth in the average duration of unemployment.

Developed over the past decade, the system is implemented by a group of analysts whom employees refer to as the «smart guys» (though many are women).

This goes far beyond a paper code of conduct, philanthropic hand - outs or the social audit fatigue which has gripped the industry over the past decade.

Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

Over the past decade, social websites have continued to grow in popularity at exponential rates.

«While much attention has been paid to the surge in popularity of Canada's natural resources over the past decade, Canadian companies have been quietly and steadily increasing their international sales of services,» wrote the Conference Board's Jacqueline Palladini.

Horner is a three - time entrepreneur who has been featured in Inc. magazine, on KABC and Extra and in other publications highlighting her successes in the Silicon Beach community over the past decade.

That operating wizardry has allowed the sports - apparel Goliath to push its dividend up steadily, at 18 % a year over the past decade, an «astonishingly good number,» says Kilbride.

The cost of health insurance premiums has skyrocketed by more than 130 percent over the past decade, and it is possible they will be impervious to reform efforts.

Consequently, Salt Lake City has enjoyed among the highest rates of salary growth in the country over the past decade, according to BLS data.

In the meantime, the Canadian market is losing steam, and that will curb the blockbuster earnings growth that all of the banks have enjoyed over the past decade.

Adam Belsher, who left his job in September as vice-president of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack of accountability is partly a result of the company's rapid growth over the past decade.

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

Numerous studies over the past decade have revealed the devastating long - term impact that football can have on the human brain.

A good starting place would be some transparency about the changes that have occurred to the tax system over the past decade and how the measures he is proposing will address both the overall fairness and efficiency of our fiscal system.

WA taxpayers have pumped $ 171 billion into running the Federation over the past decade as almost every other State and Territory has enjoyed an economic free ride on the State's coat - tails.

Traditional BI platforms have come a long way over the past decade.

But van Beurden has been slimming down his portfolio of oil projects with the intent of keeping only those lean enough to make good returns in a world in which oil prices average no more than $ 40 a barrel, well below the average price over the past decade.

And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

Barrick ended up mired in debt and dysfunction in part because it tried to boost production numbers over the past decade, just for the sake of boosting numbers.

It has doubled over the past decade and is projected to reach $ 350 billion by 2020, according to the province's own Financial Accountability Officer.

Over the past decade, the traditional sources of venture capital funding have dried up.

Canada's resource sector was one of the primary drivers for employment over the past decade, according to Statistics Canada, so a correction in China would also rob this country of a key engine for job growth.

It reflects the type of commercial venture that's become more common over the past decade, fueled by decreases in launch costs and an influx of venture capital.

If you want further testimony about how much personal bankruptcies have dropped over the past decade, talk to Susan Grossberg, a Springfield, Mass., attorney.

Chief Louie touted his corporation's proven track record of managing major projects — $ 220 - million worth of capital spending over the past decade — as well as its ISO 9001 certification, a seal of quality management.

Almost all GrowthWorks's funds have posted negative returns over the past decade.

Traditionally, Ottawa has raised the ceiling anytime CMHC approached it, a practice that has allowed the institution to grow exponentially over the past decade.

Over the past decade and a half, the industry has witnessed a ton of consolidation (most notably in mergers between Delta and Northwest, United and Continental, and American and U.S. Airways), which means that airlines are less likely to try to undercut one another on price.

Prices for gold bullion and other precious metals have climbed over the past decade to new heights as investors sought protection against the erosion of incomes and wealth by inflation.

Over the past decade or so, many developed nations experienced a real estate boom.

It would have been understandable had people just thrown their hands up in disgust and given up on branded consumerism after the mess over the past decade, and we'd be screwed if they had.

Over the past decade, domestic consumption's share of the economy has plunged from around half to a miniscule 35 %, the lowest of any significant economy ever, according to Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University whose online writings have become must - reads for those eager to divine what's really going on in China.

Far from an economic powerhouse, China's economy remains a middleweight when its vast number of poor people is taken into account — the country's per capita GDP is only around US$ 4,500, 1 / 10th that of the U.S. And as a share of the economy, household incomes have actually declined over the past decade.

Over the past decade, determining the cause - and - effect relationship between medical debt and bankruptcy has become a political football, particularly during the years the Obama administration was trying to pass the ACA through Congress.

It's up 47 % over the past decade.

Over the past decade, B.C. has experienced a devastating mountain pine beetle outbreak, which has destroyed 16.3 million hectares of forest.

Over the past decade, Groupe Dissan's Montreal headquarters has expanded from five employees to 65, and sales have doubled.

While this process of gathering and analyzing data has improved significantly over the past decade, chatbots have taken it a step further.

Over the past decade, patient investors benefited greatly from one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history, using stocks, gold and even cryptocurrency as vehicles of profit.

Over the past decade, Apple grew the scope of its (RED)- branded hardware and software offerings.

There's a commonality between some of the most popular food brands founded over the past decade, including Beyond Meat, Noosa Yoghurt and Nona Lim: Whole Foods.

Over the past decade, about 150 companies have achieved skyrocketing valuations of $ 1 billion or more.

Over the past decade, China has emerged as a global economic power.