Pensions, however, will suffer a drop in investment returns.
Indeed, Figure 2 panel b shows a drop in intended return prior to marriage among women who marry a German spouse.
The Centre for Risk Studies estimated someone with a high quality investment portfolio could see a 6percentt drop in returns following the worst-case Miami hurricane.
A big drop in returns would be particularly vexing for pension funds, which are counting on private equity, hedge funds and other so-called alternative investments to help them meet their mounting liabilities.
But with a drop in stock market returns, the board decided to sell off the prize of its collection, a complete poster-size folio of Audubon's "Birds of America," valued at as much as $7 million.
Among women who marry a German spouse, we actually observe a drop in intentions to return a few years before marriage.
But if we see fashion as a collective expression of a particular idea, there are clear trends emerging from the Paris autumn/winter 2012 season — a drop in skirt hemlines; a return to pants, mostly high-waisted; and the invention of a coat-cape hybrid that has appeared on many runways.
A significant drop in group support activity at 6 months correlated with a drop off in return of follow-up surveys and an apparent reduction in satisfaction with standard medical education.
But they represent only a drop in the bucket of hyperactive, returns chasing investors, egged on by their "market beating" brokers and advisors.
The result was a drop in dopamine levels and a return to submissive behavior and lack of fertility.
Over time, this drop in returns reduced the demand for college training, and by the late 1970s enrollments had dwindled.
