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Eligible employees who are having a baby have the right to take up to a year of maternity leave - no matter how long they have worked for an employer.

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This involves taking the estimates that clients have come up with for what they expect to spend in retirement — and then running a simulation of what would happen to their portfolio if they spent 25 % more than that over each of their first 15 years.

On CNBC's «Options Action» Friday, Cornerstone Macro's Carter Worth explained that after two years of consolidation, biotech stocks are about to play catch up to the market, and one way to take advantage of the move is with one of its top constituents — Amgen.

With a growing empire that reaches well beyond entertainment, the 47 - year - old opens up about the power of entrepreneurship, investing and the need to build wealth, leaving listeners with a three valuable lessons on how to take their success to the next level:

Perhaps it's not a bad idea to take the holiday season an occasion to formally and fully switch off, but the best use of the time, if Rosen is to be believed, is to think deeply about how you want to live, your priorities, and how you can draw up strategies (or boundaries) to help you achieve that vision in the coming year.

Mobalytics is one of several gaming analytics startups to spring up in recent years, though none have yet taken a significant market share.

From there, it can take upwards of ten years to work up to a management role.

After 11 years at its helm, Silver Chain chief executive Christopher McGowan will depart the community care organisation and return to his home in South Australia, taking up the role of SA Health chief executive in May.

The surplus was still down 47 percent from a year earlier, with the trade balance remained in deficit as the yen's decline has pushed up costs of imported fuels immediately while its impact on exports will take some time to be fully seen.

For most of that time, he headed up marketing for Nintendo of America, before moving back north last year to take the reins of the Canadian operation.

The two nuclear - powered probes launched 40 years ago and became the first and only robots to take close - up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, the planets» moons and rings, and other objects in the outer solar system.

If you decide to stay in town year round, there are a number of activities that you can take up, from surfing and deep sea fishing to riding horses along the beach.

«Sarah's taking advantage of a unique confluence of events, building the relationships that start - ups today need to grow as fast as they can,» says Kevin Armitage, senior vice-president at FAC / Equities, the investment - banking division of First Albany Corp., which has worked with Gerdes during the past few years.

Maybe the country was particularly fond of a bit in season two with a KGB spy who wakes up from a 30 - year coma and resumes his mission to take down America.

The rate of auto repossessions in the second quarter took a significant jump, up more than 70 percent (to 0.62 percent) from a year earlier.

GE said Tuesday after a review of its GE Capital insurance portfolio that it will take a $ 6.2 billion after - tax charge for the fourth quarter of 2017 and expects to contribute $ 15 billion over the next seven years to shore up the portfolio's reserves.

Less than a year before that, another UAE - owned firm took control of the Berbera port in the breakaway northern region of Somaliland and pledged up to $ 440 million to develop it.

After three years, the company was topping a million in revenue, but Milne was paying up to $ 55,000 in interchange fees -; a small percentage of each transaction taken by credit card companies.

After 16 years, Dina Alker is going to put her house in Toronto up for sale Monday, joining the throngs of others in the city who have decided to downsize as a chill gripping what was once one of the hottest real estate markets in North America takes hold.

But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.

Robert Hazell, head of the Constitution Unit at University College London, says that is an «impossible timetable,» and estimates it could take up to three years to hammer out the details.

The shift has squeezed margins in recent years because the cloud business model is based on subscriptions which take longer to pay off — in contrast to one - off, up - front software license payments that was the thrust of its business for decades.

One year ago ExactTarget, an interactive marketing software company, went public with a market cap of over $ 1 billion (and I wrote about the mental journey from start - up to IPO taken by the company's founders.)

All this sets up The Force Awakens — the seventh chapter in the Star Wars franchise that takes place 30 years after The Return of the Jedi — to break the record for the highest grossing opening weekend at the box office.

Once you open an RESP account, you can take advantage of the Canadian Education Savings Grant, which gives you a 20 % top - up from the government for every dollar you contribute, up to $ 2,500 a year per child.

Paper - based, manual processes take extra time, and over the course of the year, those minutes add up to hours, days and weeks.

Given that Canadian shoppers and snowbirds have been flocking to U.S. outlet malls for years, and have upped their visits with the rise of the loonie, the only question about the groundswell of domestic interest in this retail segment is: What took so long?

Rob Bransby will resign as managing director of the state's largest health insurer next year to take up the top job at Perth Racing.

Just over a year ago, the company trumpeted a study that said a whopping 92 % of Twitter users took immediate action after seeing tweets related to a TV show, whether that meant tuning into it or looking it up.

It can take one to three years of testing to reach the one composition Corning ends up putting into the next generation of Gorilla Glass.

For the hardworking employees who haven't taken off some time by a quarter or third of the way through the year, they'll get a week chosen for them when they are simply not allowed to show up at the office.

Dozens of funds have sprouted up this year to trade digital assets such as bitcoin, and some big - name money managers like Bill Miller and Michael Novogratz have also taken an interest.

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«Last year, we realized that the arms race had taken off to such an extent in the U.S that we really needed to up the platform of our high - end product,» he said.

In May, CEO Steve Easterbrook, who took the reins in March with a clear mandate to stop years of sales bleeding at the world's largest restaurant company, announced a series of steps to shake up the company.

Even if it took 10 or 15 years of relentless diplomatic pressure from the joint efforts of the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan to convince Kim Jong - un to give up his weapons and doing so resulted in the eventual denuclearization of the peninsula — and successfully deterred war — it would be a major victory for U.S. foreign policy and secure our vital national interests.

But Google has announced it will build 100 prototypes of that autonomous two - seater, working to refine its technology, and reports circulated in late 2014 that Google was seeking an automotive partner to bring that car to market, though it may take up to five years to do so.

In Aventura, Fla., for example, drone operators could face a $ 500 fine and up to a year in jail if they fly a drone at a public gathering or take photos of a person's house without their consent.

If they indicate that their child is heading off to their first year of college, or they are taking a long awaited vacation, jot these things down on a calendar so you can ask how things went when you do a follow - up call.

While the pill is still in its experimental stage — the company has said it could take up to 10 years for the pill to be prescribed, the AP reports — this technology has the potential to dramatically transform the way we diagnose and treat a host of diseases, most notably cancer.

I started out taking one week of vacation per year and gradually worked up to four, timing my breaks to coincide with the periods when business was slow.

Before heading out for my freshman year, I got a bunch of photos printed that I had taken of my friends from back home to tape up around my dorm room.

With one eye on my life outside the business and the other on my changing role in it, I came up with the long - term goal of eventually being able to take off four months every year.

The process is not easy and can take up to two years, however, investors will appreciate the shorter wait times, and a stamp of approval on your project means less work for you as the project moves along — and peace of mind for the investor.

OfferUp has taken reportedly up to five years to get to that amount, albeit nearly ten years later and in a different world of mobile technology.

But four years after graduating from Western University, Cowin was in Australia, opening up that country's first KFC to take advantage of a market underserved by fast - food restaurants.

Last year the movement inspired college students to take up the mantel, with some successes (the system president and chancellor of the University of Missouri resigned over outcry they failed to address campus racism).

According to Statistics Canada, last year nearly 30 % of fathers took at least some leave to be with their new baby — up from 3 % a decade earlier.

Katie Shea, co-founder of CitySlips, a New York start - up that sells foldable ballet flats that fit in a purse, says although she hasn't had a break in two years, she plans to take a trip this summer.

Located within the Greater Vancouver area, the mid - to large - size chain took in $ 52 million in revenue at the end of 2013, up 8 % from the previous year.