Over the last decade, however, the percentage of overhead costs for associates has risen faster
than the fees they generate.
Not exact matches
This means the decisions investors make about how to diversify, the time the choose to get into or out of the market, as well as
fees they pay or underperforming funds they choose, cause them to
generate returns far lower
than the overall market.
The higher -
than - average annual
fees SAC charges clients — as much as 3 percent of assets and 50 percent of profits — cover the expenses of running his hedge funds, including employee compensation, and
generate profits for Cohen as the principal owner.
Lennox
generates revenue directly from attendee
fees, as well as more
than a dozen manufacturing and service partners.
Assuming the exact same investments above, if you were to pay 20 % carry on each of your investments, despite not
generating any profit, you would still have to pay the full $ 20K in carry on the one successful investment, and would therefore end up with less money
than you started with, or $ 80K returned (probably less after other
fees and expenses).
Each year banks make billions of dollars in overdraft
fees, and more
than three - quarters of this revenue is
generated from just a small fraction of checking accounts, less
than 10 percent.
The SEC complaint also alleged Blackstone failed to disclose a legal
fee arrangement providing it with a much greater discount on its legal
fees than the discount received by the funds, which
generated significantly more legal work.
«Unfortunately, a few bad actors are taking advantage of the [VA home loan] program as home lenders have begun targeting veterans and servicemembers to
generate profit and
fees at their expense, often leading to higher loan amounts and putting families in a worse financial position
than they started off,» observed Senator Tillis.
«GFI is 100 % supported by philanthropic gifts and grants, so we have no programs (such as earned income,
fees for service, merchandise sales, etc.) other
than development that
generate revenue.»
«GFI is 100 % supported by philanthropic gifts and grants, so we have no programs (such as earned income,
fees for service, merchandise sales, etc.) other
than development that
generate revenue.»
Silent Stan will not allow AFC top spend more
than it
generates, if we could have invested some of next seasons ticket sales / transfer
fee then we could have affording him... Business model.
Considering the sale of James would
generate only a fraction of the
fee required to secure the services of Hazard, it might be better for Real to stick rather
than twist.
The Park District would run the facility less like a private club and more like a public facility by
generating more of its revenues from daily
fees, rather
than from high membership rates, Werhane said.
It's easy enough to
generate a cost higher
than the
fee.
The three selected projects are projected to support more
than 3,200 full - time jobs and
generate $ 265 million in tax revenues, along with $ 136 million in licensing
fees.
Cutting the
fee in half has already
generated interest among members who opposed the 10 - cent charge, which would go to store owners rather
than the city.
The money that
generates substantially covers you, more
than substantially covers you, for the policy of no tuition
fees, no top - up
fees, a reintroduction of grants for poorer students, that we have already successfully pioneered in one part of the UK in Scotland.
On average, MA plans
generate risk scores that are 6.4 percent higher
than what the same enrollees would
generate on traditional
fee - for - service, report the researchers.
Common sense and experience suggest that higher speaking or consulting
fees are likely to be
generated by big buzz in general rather
than by a one - week guest appearance on a best - seller list.
The startup is nearing 3 million members, drives more
than 1 million e-book sales every month and
generates revenue in the «seven figures» from commissions on sales and
fees paid by publishers and authors to be included in the newsletter.
Kickstarter
fees are much lower
than Amazon or other distribution channels, so books sold through Kickstarter projects
generate higher net revenues to the author.
This is due to the fact that their legacy billing systems will
generate a new bill after a payment is made and bill late
fees for any amount less
than a full payment.
Many advisory teams in Canada
generate more
than $ 1 million in commissions or from asset - based
fees from clients.
You hear cases that this was allegedly done so the advisor could
generate more in
fees than what would have been the case if these assets were placed in a traditional commissioned based brokerage account.
Payment of an ETP Incentive
Fee is intended to
generate more quotes and trading
than might otherwise exist absent this payment.
The payment of a CLP
fee is intended to
generate more quotes and trading
than might otherwise exist.
Also, clients who have RSP accounts and less
than $ 25,000 in aggregate across all iTrade accounts and who place less
than 12 commission
generating trades per year are subject to annual
fee of $ 100.
These ETFs combine all of the benefits of active management, including the potential to
generate better risk / adjusted returns
than index strategies, coupled with the unique benefits of ETF investing, including low management
fees and intra-day liquidity.
American Express has a «spend - centric» business model, which means they want to
generate revenue by loyal card members using their card to spend, rather
than charging excessive finance charges and unreasonable
fees.
Payment of a CLP
Fee is intended to
generate more quotes and trading
than might otherwise exist absent this payment.
I understand this viewpoint — but in reality, many commission - based advisors try to move their clients into new products every few years, thus
generating more commissions, and in many cases costing more
than a
fee - only advisor who charges a percentage of assets.
Most investors are willing to pay these
fees because they expect the hedge fund manager to
generate excess returns that will more
than make up for their
fees.
Second, when a hedge fund charges excessive management
fees, which are based on size of assets under management, rather
than performance
fees which are based on how much money they make for you, a hedge fund manager tends to focus more on growing AUM rather
than generating the highest possible risk adjusted returns.
American Express has a «spend - centric» business model, which means they want to
generate revenue by loyal card members using their card to spend, rather
than charging excessive finance charges and unreasonable
fees.
Imho, you would have to
generate significant amount of reward eligible purchases with that additonal 50 cent points per $ 100 SPENDING to make it appear worthwhile the hassle of remembering (usually right) before December EACH YEAR to ask Rogers / Fido (other
than towards Rogers / Fido store / stuff) for your hUge cash payout as next January statement credit ONLY; thus finally getting back ~ all Fido / Rogers» 2.5 % FX
fees you loaned / paid them except FX
fees Fido / Rogers bank keeps from any purchase returns / cancels / reversals, atm cash / cash advance needs and any cash - like transactions (e.g., pre-paid load, «lottery tickets, casino gaming chips») in «foreign currency» where you get zero / no rewards rebating them.
Microsoft and Sony
generated more
than $ 14 billion in combined revenues from first - party games, third - party game
fees, and subscription revenues.
But now that video games
generate nearly as much revenue as domestic movie ticket sales, actors say they want a piece of every game sold rather
than one - time up front
fees.
For example, an «energy security
fee» of $ 3.50 per barrel of imported oil would raise approximately $ 15 billion annually; reduced fossil fuel subsidies as proposed by the administration could
generate upwards of $ 35 billion over ten years; a utilities electricity
fee could raise at least $ 2 billion annually, as included in the Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act; and royalties on new offshore continental shelf drilling could raise more
than $ 100 billion over twenty years.
Thus Americans will move from
generating much more CO2
than average to closer - to - average, and eventually to zero generation of CO2 (when the carbon
fee becomes sufficiently high and alternative energy infrastructure is readily available).
But the way it plans to do so is much more interesting
than your typical «buy a bunch of offsets» emissions - reduction scheme — instead, the company is creating a «carbon price and charge back model» that will levy
fees on each of its various internal business groups for the emissions they
generate.
The tool has created more
than 33,000 expungement filings and
generated enough filing
fee waivers to save Marylanders $ 756,600, he says.
As Robert Loblaw recounts at his blog, Decision of the Day, inventor Miguel Figueroa was troubled by the more
than $ 500 million in excess revenue
generated by
fees paid to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
If you do not charge the F / F a
fee, you risk that if the matter becomes more complicated
than you anticipated, you may become resentful that you are working for free, do a poor job, or let the case «mature» under a pile of files that do
generate fees.
Clients, on the other hand, say they don't want to accept fixed
fees because they figure that the lawyer, always having his or her own financial interests uppermost in mind, would only offer an AFA if it was guaranteed to produce more revenue
than the billable - hour model would have
generated; if the lawyer wants it, it must be bad for the client.
«In Figueroa v. United States (June 28, 2005), the Court of Federal Claims concluded that Congress» practice of using money
generated from patent application
fees paid to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for purposes other
than supporting USPTO operations did not violate the Intellectual Property Clause of the Constitution.»
Matters that
generate lower aggregate
fees are more frequently set up under an AFA
than are matters that
generate, or are anticipated to
generate, larger aggregate
fees.
When we asked MPF Conference participants about the percentage of revenue
generated through alternative
fees, nearly half said less
than 5 %.
(2) a «reasonable remuneration» upon exploitation of an employee's invention patent amounting to no less
than 2 % of the after - tax profit
generated from implementation of an invention patent (no less
than 0.2 % for a utility model or design patent), or 10 % of the
fee generated from the licensing of the patent.
AFAs are more frequently used for matters expected to
generate lower, rather
than higher, aggregate
fees.
Likewise, taking a third of every personal injury recovery may avoid the temptation to work unnecessary hours, but it doesn't remove the temptation to work too few — and, it certainly is no guarantee that the
fee generated has any connection to the value added by the lawyer to the client's case, or to the risk taken that might justify a
fee larger
than a reasonable hourly amount.