Uncertainty around the policy path of President - elect Trump, coupled with a changing interest rate landscape and rising PBGC premiums create a challenging environment for plan sponsors.
Firms are indeed tapping the brakes because they have decided to sit on their hands in the face of unprecedented
uncertainty around the policy backdrop.
Uncertainty around the policy path of President - elect Trump, coupled with a changing interest rate landscape and rising PBGC premiums create a challenging environment for plan sponsors.
«The design of the proposed levy system needs a radical rethink as business concern and
uncertainty around the policy grows with each passing week.»
Not exact matches
Michael Michalak of the U.S. - ASEAN Business Council and former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam says Southeast Asia remains a focus for U.S. companies, though there is some caution because of
uncertainty around the impact of regional trade
policies.
Like all small businesses, they have seen ups and downs over the past year, buffeted by major changes in tax
policy and, more recently, great
uncertainty around trade
policy.
With the recent changes to the U.S.'s immigration
policies, we know this is a time of real
uncertainty for many of our colleagues
around the world.
With
uncertainty around the Fed's monetary
policy set to continue, what do you think the VIX will do until year - end?
Despite these improvements, however, threats to financial stability are emerging from elevated political and
policy uncertainty around the globe.
We're now going to experience a hammering in all stock markets
around the world due to
policy uncertainty.
«What is holding back lenders and other capital providers is the tremendous political
uncertainty and confusion
around business and economic
policy.»
«The
uncertainty around Powell
policy is contributing to market volatility,» said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors.
First, there is the
uncertainty around how the pace of GDP growth will respond to tax and federal spending
policies.
According to the Bank of Canada, greenfield foreign direct investment into Canada has declined since mid-2016 — especially from Europe but also from the United States — a possible sign of the effects of the
uncertainty around trade
policy.
Short - term
uncertainty around UK energy
policy, as we have seen in the last couple of days, is very unhelpful and has the potential to result in increased prices for consumers and delay much - needed investment in all forms of energy infrastructure.
There is a great post at the Council on Foreign Relations blog where by Michael Levi boils down global climate change in to two overarching unknowns: (1) extent of damage by an accumulation of greenhouse gases, and (2) an
uncertainty around which
policies, or set of
policies, will succeed in reducing emissions.
With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, principals face even greater
uncertainty around state
policy decisions concerning new accountability requirements, principal evaluation systems, and funding for schools.
Even with the recent economic improvements, the bank still underlined concerns
around geopolitical risks and
uncertainties related to international trade and fiscal
policies.
With all the
uncertainty around the Chinese economic model and messy central banking
policy, hammering home this critique current environment is moronic.
China, ending months of
uncertainty, said it would pursue
policies that result in a peak in its carbon dioxide emissions
around 2030, with «the intention» of trying to peak earlier, and to increase the non-fossil fuel share of all energy to
around 20 percent by 2030.
There's some
policy uncertainty around community solar.
Managers from carbon intensive companies are holding off on long term emissions strategies because of
uncertainty around regulations and
policies, new research finds.
When you argue that a nation emitting high levels of ghgs need not adopt climate change
policies because there is scientific
uncertainty about adverse climate change impacts, are you arguing that a nation need not take action on climate change until scientific
uncertainties are resolved given that waiting to resolve all scientific
uncertainties before action is taken may very likely make it too late to prevent catastrophic climate change harms to millions of people
around the world?
This comes amongst
uncertainty around Australia's 2020 targets, with a lack of clarity on whether the new
policy regime will meet 5 % and a review of a review of a possible review to take place in 2015 as to any further commitments.
The authors of this blog rightly identify various controversies and
uncertainties around estimating the SCC that diminish its usefulness from a
policy perspective.
I hope that nobody is saying that those questions are settled, but, as a skeptic, I go much further than not settled: I think that the
uncertainty around those questions is so high that the only
policies defendable are the no - regret one, the one that could be defended without even raising CO2 issue.
Apart from this, the way to get
around the whiplash problem is to get rid of the mindset and decision analytic framework whereby
policies are based on a most likely outcome (with an
uncertainty range), determined from a negotiated consensus about a highly uncertain topic.
According to Emefiele, it is because of this
uncertainty around it that he has asked his «colleagues in the research and monetary -
policy department to study the market and get to know what the issues are.»
With a membership that spans the globe, many of whom work with clients or have loved ones affected by these
policies, we recognize that they may be impacted by the
uncertainty around this rapidly evolving situation.