Or is he prepared to allow high profits in return for high levels of investment?
Governments are also under tremendous pressure to keep their pension fund rate of return high: the lower the rate of return on investment, the greater the pension obligations become.
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As you immerse yourself in 2013 planning, plan for a high return on the investment of time and human resources associated with your giving and volunteer program by allocating appropriate dollars to fuel these efforts.
Over the next three years, the total return of the high yield index exceeded the total return on investment grade corporate bonds by 1.71 percentage points per annum.
Investors following Makin's logic can bail out of a high-return investment too soon.
Families, burdened by the high price of college, are questioning their return on investment.
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"Despite the widespread appeal of its products and their high return on investment, VMware does not seem immune to recessionary budgets, " she added.
The greater the spread between the high-interest debt and the rate of return on investment, the greater the financial advantage for paying off the debt first.
On top of the already high fees charged by a hedge fund a fifth of the investment return plus a management fee of 1-2% a fund of funds takes another slice, typically 10% of the return if the fund does well, plus a fee of around 1%.
He and his white shoe legal counsel argued that in an era of high inflation (1980s), an oil and gas investment which had a projected return of 20% was, in fact, conservative because the return would only keep pace with inflation.
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But the payback of sustained results makes it a high-return investment and those results can spell the difference between a company that is able to make the strategic investments to secure its future and one that struggles to keep up.
For a more dramatic example, consider the following: An investment in Riverbed Technology (RVBD), a developer of software to accelerate application performance and data transmission speeds on WANs, would have generated a 6x return, versus an investment in Clearwire (CLWR), a provider of portable high-speed wireless broadband services, which would have generated a 0.3x return.
Given the hundreds of billions of dollars in play here each and every year, a small investment has a very high return.
The return on investment of going to Harvard or another top-10 business school has remained relatively high, but the return on going to lesser schools is very questionable.
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