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

Successful Covid-19 pandemic-era loss mitigation measures, such as extended forbearance and payment deferrals, have lowered expected losses.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

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

Talk went around of students, somewhere else in the country, getting deferrals because they’d shown they were in love—and now, just sometimes, the talk was of students with no connections to Hailsham.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro