The firms fear
the rising number of fixed - fee requests will hit their profitability and force them to make permanent adjustments in pricing practice, according to Thomson Reuters Legal annual research among finance directors at the top 100 UK law firms.
Not exact matches
The figures reveal that the
number of fixed - period exclusions
rose by 12 % last year, with permanent exclusions up 15 % year - on - year.
These single - premium
fixed products have been around decades, but they only had ho - hum sales — that is, until a
rising number of advisors, financial media and older consumers began to see value
of including income annuities in retirement portfolios.
You pay a
fixed, lower interest rate for a set
number of years, and then transition to an adjustable rate that may
rise or fall over the life
of your loan.
First, the value
of your points will be
fixed at 1.25 cents for Chase Sapphire Preferred ® Card and Ink Plus cardholders, so the
number of points required will
rise with the price
of the reservations.
If bitcoins
rise in value to $ 500 each, and then to $ 5,000, and then to $ 50,000, which would have to happen if the
fixed number of bitcoins was being used to replace trillions
of dollars in value, then the value
of the house would plunge, in bitcoin terms — to just 10.
As vacancy rates
rise at malls across the United States, with the increasing
numbers of retailers announcing bankruptcies, deferring expansion plans and closing stores the energy management system could help operators reduce
fixed utility costs.