The account value is subject to market fluctuations and investment risk so that, when withdrawn, it may be worth more or less
than its original value even when an optional protection benefit rider is elected.
Not exact matches
If I'm right about the
value in Streamway, then my
original reason for buying the stock will work out, and maybe
even sooner
than I had hoped.
The
original UM document called one body of mainline Protestants to affirm at the most basic level that all forms of human life are worth incalculably more
than their industrial, market, scientific or
even therapeutic use
value.
The ink exhibited high conductivity
even when it was stretched to more
than three times its
original length, which marks the highest
value reported for stretchable conductors that can be extended to more
than two and a half times their
original length.
The prospect of the DOE «selling» the loan to an investor group is reportedly unprecedented, but
even at the much lower price
than its
original value, represents the best chance for U.S. taxpayers to get at least part of their money back.
• Unlike in the U.S., underwriting standards for qualifying mortgage borrowers in Canada have been maintained at prudent levels resulting in mortgage borrowers here being much more creditworthy; • Canadian mortgage lenders never offered low initial «teaser» rate mortgages that led to most of the difficulties for mortgage borrowers in the U.S.; • Most mortgages in Canada are held by their
original lender, not packaged and sold to third parties as is typical in the U.S., and consequently, Canadian mortgage lenders have a vested interest in ensuring that their mortgage borrowers are creditworthy and not likely to default; • Only 0.3 % of Canadian mortgages are in arrears versus 4.5 % in the U.S. and what
even before the start of the U.S. housing meltdown two years ago was 2 %; • Canadians tend to pay down their mortgage faster
than in the U.S. where mortgage interest is deductible from taxes, which encourages U.S. homeowners to take equity out of their homes to finance other spending, a difference that is reflected in the fact that in Canada mortgage debt accounts for just over 30 % of the
value of homes, compared with 55 % in the U.S.
If you pass away and your investment
value is less
than your
original value, the insurance provider will bring your investment back to
even, ie, if the $ 150,000 goes to $ 100,000 just when your wife passes away, the insurer will bring the account back to $ 150,000.
The biggest benefit is taking something that was perceived to be illiquid and of limited
value, and turning it into a liquid asset that may have an
even greater
value in the hands of an investor
than the
original policy owner.
The designers at Science and Sons have done a terrific job of
value engineering the Phonophone; I think it looks more elegant and appears to work
even better
than the
original; they claim that «This clever device amplifies the volume emitted from an iPhone internal speaker roughly 4x (approx. 60 decibels).»
I suspect that given the paucity of knowledge in relation to clouds and aerosols (not to mention cycles)... the
original X factors for the equation ranged through
values that at the lower end produced no scary warming scenarios for the future doubling (ie at or lower
than 1.5 C) to those that were very scary at 3 - 4.5 C — or
even 6 C if you add strong feedbacks from melting ice, permafrost and emissions of methane.
Certainly, a new currency will need to be substantially better
than Bitcoin to overtake it, and Bitcoin's status as the first cryptocurrency out there gives it special unique
value (much like «the
original» of any painting is worth thousands of times more
than even the most visually indistinguishable replica).
This places bitcoin owners in the unenviable position of paying a tax bill this spring on Bitcoin Cash, which is
even more volatile
than the
original currency, and whose
value could one day collapse to nearly nothing at all.