Sentences with phrase «value than flat»

In these instances, transferable points tend to have more value than flat value points on many occasions.

Not exact matches

Sales were flat in North America, compared with a 38 percent growth in the Asia - Pacific region, but that was enough to knock 5 percent off the stock which has gained more than two - thirds in value over the past year.

An adviser who earns a flat fee - such an hourly rate or a set percentage of your portfolio value - is much better aligned with you than an adviser who earns commissions for selling you particular mutual funds, insurance policies, or other products.

An advisor who earns a flat fee — such an hourly rate or a set percentage of your portfolio value — is much better aligned with you than an advisor who earns commissions...

An advisor who earns a flat fee — such an hourly rate or a set percentage of your portfolio value — is much better aligned with you than an advisor who earns commissions for selling you particular mutual funds, insurance policies, or other products.

After enjoying a period of very strong performance, the shares of health care companies fell by more than 40 percent in value from the beginning of 1992 through the summer of 1993 (while the market was flat) as investors feared lower health care profits from proposals of broad nationalization and increased regulation.

i challenge any christian to show that Humanism, a modern, atheistic ethical system, doesn't hold better values than the bible, a book written when people thought the earth was flat.

Thoughtful, reflective persons are on the near side of this great modern divide, and I don't think they can go back to premodern ways of thinking, about values as well as religion (any more than they can go back to thinking that the world is flat or lies at the center of the universe).

More than $ 800 million in market value has been shredded from two ASX - listed companies, Treasury Wine Estates and quality assurance group SAI Global, since proposed takeover bids by private equity firms fell flat.

A good example is if you try and fit a normal distribution to 10 data values using a flat prior for the variance... the final variance estimate you get is higher than anything that any of the standard methods will give you, and is really just nonsense: it's extremely biased, and the resulting predictions of the normal are much too wide.

DeVos called public education a «dead end» before becoming education secretary and has continued to talk about it in less - than - flattering terms, refusing to acknowledge the value of what has been America's most important civic institution.

• Body structure weight - optimised and crash - optimised; standard safety features including front and side airbags, side curtain airbags, 3 - point automatic seat belts on all seats, with belt tensioners and belt force limiters at front, ISOFIX children's seat mounting at rear, Run Flat Indicator and partially active engine compartment lid to optimise pedestrian protection; vehicle weight lower than in predecessor models and competitors in the segment in virtually all variants of the new MINI despite extended range of fittings; increased acoustic and vibrational comfort: optimised aerodynamic properties as appropriate to each specific model including active cooling air flaps, underbody trim panel and air ducting elements in the upper section of the C columns; best aerodynamic figures within the competitive environment: Cd value reduced to 0.28 (MINI Cooper, MINI Cooper D).

• Body structure weight - optimised and crash - optimised; standard safety features including front and side airbags, side curtain airbags, 3 - point automatic seat belts on all seats, with belt tensioners and belt force limiters at front, ISOFIX children's seat mounting at rear, Run Flat Indicator and partially active engine compartment lid to optimise pedestrian protection; vehicle weight lower than in predecessor models and competitors in the segment in virtually all variants of the new MINI despite extended range of fittings; increased acoustic and vibrational comfort: optimised aerodynamic properties as appropriate to each specific model including active cooling air flaps, underbody trim panel and air ducting elements in the upper section of the C columns; best aerodynamic figures within the competitive environment: Cd value reduced to 0.28 or 0.31 (MINI Cooper S).

I purchased a new constructed — ready to move flat in 2015, the value of this flat is more than previous as well as the housing lone also increased!

At face value this seems more expensive than Stash, which charges $ 1 flat fee.

If you're a one - credit - card type of entrepreneur, a flat - rate card like this will likely offer better long - term value than a tiered rewards card.

Classic and flattering, the emerald diamond offers more value than other cuts.

Wyndham charges the same flat rate for every rewards - funded hotel stay, so a standard room that typically costs $ 200 a night will give you a lot more value than a room that costs $ 80 a night.

Its flat 1.5 percent rewards rate is lower than the Citi DoubleCash card's 2 percent rate, but Sapphire Reserve cardholders can push their Freedom cash into Ultimate Rewards points to get 50 percent in bonus value when booking travel, effectively turning their cash - back rate into 2.25 percent.

If you're a one - credit - card type of entrepreneur, a flat - rate card like this will likely offer better long - term value than a tiered rewards card.

I think that this would be most easily seen if their weak S priors (flat in S but truncated for values greater than some S) are flipped back into the L domain where they will be of the form 3.7 / L ^ 2 (with a trunction below some low L).

If, say, the proxy values are roughly flat, and if the Betas sum to even slightly more than one, don't we expect some spurious upward trend?

A good example is if you try and fit a normal distribution to 10 data values using a flat prior for the variance... the final variance estimate you get is higher than anything that any of the standard methods will give you, and is really just nonsense: it's extremely biased, and the resulting predictions of the normal are much too wide.

But since that predicted value has traditionally been so hard to determine (and defense lawyers will often up the value to justify more billable hours spent on the matter), the industry is left really with no better model than something based on the actual billable hours whether that be the actual amount or some predicted amount in the case of a flat fee.

If you paid top dollar for a flat screen LED TV when they were first coming on the market more than five years ago, you may be shocked to learn what its actual cash value may be as determined by an insurance company.

What differentiates an Indexed UL policy from other types of permanent life insurance used for cash accumulation is that the growth of the policy's cash value is based on the performance of an equity index (usually the S&P 500), excluding dividends, collared by a cap and a floor — rather than based on a flat crediting rate that is established by the insurance carrier and adjusted from time to time (a product referred to as «current assumption universal life»), based on a flat dividend rate that is established by the insurance carrier and adjusted from time to time (a product referred to as «whole life»), or based on the actual investment returns of specific equity investments (a product referred to as «variable universal life»).

Other than the high price and the fact that you flat out can't buy it in a lot of places the Galaxy Note 5 is better in most ways than the Nexus 6P, but it's not as good value.

But more so than the widening spread is the illustration that rents and mortgage expense can stay flat and thanks to falling interest rates, rental property values have skyrocketed.