Instead, he believes that the best way to get data you want is to trade other data, which could provide business value far beyond the returns of publishing data in exchange for cash.
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East Asia is prepared to forgo better returns in order to keep its exchange rates down and export demand up.
We can either attempt to beat the markets using actively-managed mutual funds or earn market returns with index funds and select exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
As a result, corporate treasurers couldn't do with Chinese cash what they generally do with other short-term spare cash generated by day to day operations put it to work where it is most effective for paying down debt, hedging exchange risks or generating returns.
Nor is there any sign that, in exchange for the cuts in guaranteed returns, life insurers will make their executives take responsibility for poor management.
Elia falsely told investors he had a long track record of day trading stocks and exchange traded funds to yield annual returns as high as 26 percent, and that his trading on behalf of investors was paying quarterly returns of up to 20 percent.
The returns that charties, foundations and universities have gotten in exchange for their warm embrace of hedge funds and other alternatives are not good.
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An exchange-traded note is an unsecured bank IOU with returns pegged to some index.
Some 20 firms including ten of the 25 largest are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for activities that, in effect, skimmed returns off investors in those funds.
To finish the story, I made a decision in 1997 that my clients would earn their fair share of market returns through a portfolio of very low-cost index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that track industry benchmarks.
This demonstrates that countries with disproportionately large financial sectors, like the UK, have disproportionately small manufacturing sectors - because capital and talent tend to gravitate to the ostensibly big returns on offer in banks, hedge funds and so on, and because the exchange rate tends to rise to a level well above what's comfortable for exporters.
The Mongolian Stock Exchange is not for the fainthearted, but the brave have been rewarded with returns of 121% in 2010 and 58% in 2011, although the index made up of the largest 20 companies has cooled 10% so far in 2012.
On the other hand, some of Bank Austria's returns have come from such volatile areas as investments in hedge funds and trading cash, foreign exchange and derivatives for the bank's own account.
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In a market economy, firms that adopt high-cost technologies in service to the environment typically have one of three things: a set of consumers whose interest in the environment makes them willing to pay more than market prices, a set of workers willing to sacrifice wages in exchange for environmental friendliness, or a set of investors willing to take below normal returns.
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The whiff of scandal returns with the arrest of Bernard L. Madoff, a prominent Nasdaq marketmaker and chairman of the exchange in the early 1990s (see "Rigged Games").
Granger causality and long-horizon regression tests also show no causal links between daily returns or volatility in the crude oil and natural gas futures markets and the positions for two large energy exchange-traded index funds.
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