deferrals

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Within the BDCs that Fitch Ratings tracks, such deferrals accounted on average for 8% of their interest and dividend income in 2025, compared with 4% in 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Managed accounts, unlike target-date funds, provide individualized contribution guidance — recommendations to increase deferrals, projections showing the impact of saving more and periodic reassessments as income changes.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026

The change goes further than an original proposal last year, to cut bonus deferrals to five years for senior bankers.

From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025

The New York, Boston and London marathons now all have pregnancy deferrals in place, yet mothers must pay the entrance fee for a second time when they use the deferral scheme, she said.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

Well, that was how suddenly Ruth was looking at me, and though I’d said nothing about deferrals, I’d mentioned Madame, and I knew we’d stumbled into some new territory altogether.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro