Put an S&P 500 stock fund in an annuity and you will be gaining scant deferral that you couldn't have had merely by buying and holding the SPDR 500 in your brokerage account.
The AIG Europe Small Companies fund, for example, gained a scant 0.15% in the year through June 30.
But such numbers, which run into the hundreds of thousands, gain scant attention.
While the suggestion of an infectious aetiology for childhood leukaemia is gaining momentum, scant attention has been paid to the possible involvement of infections in the aetiology of other childhood malignancies.
Mr. Zuma, a rough-edged, unschooled and occasionally socialist populist whose scant education was gained in an apartheid prison, is as charismatic as Mr. Mbeki is cold.
The defections gain only scant mention in the press, but people talk about them.
These drugs don't turn dullards into super-achievers, and there's scant evidence that any IQ points are gained.
While as PayPal co-founder, one of President Trump's top advisers, Peter Thiel, gained his wealth and reputation from fintech, there has been scant indication of the direction of fintech regulation change over the next four years.
Incredibly, the media have paid scant attention to the extraordinary advances being made with stem cells gained from adults or other nonembryo sources.
The theoretical knowledge gained and the manual skills involved in manipulating LMA and a manikin concern only a scant handful of birth attendants and were never verified in real asphyxiated neonates in the delivery room or in other birth settings.
