These changes are pushing investors into taking greater risks to earn an acceptable return.
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Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.
That is, there are some financial products that are so laden with fees that it is inconceivable (not merely unlikely) that the investor will ever receive an acceptable rate of return.
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Smaller formats learned a long time ago the smaller format equated to lower sales volume and that in turn required higher margins in order to generate an acceptable level of return.
People invest to make money after tax: the higher the tax rate, the fewer investment opportunities that can produce an acceptable after-tax return.
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"Our goal is to force Amazon to return to acceptable sales practices, " a publishing CEO wrote in a December 2009 email cited in the suit.
However, in other cases, perhaps with less sympathetic claimants, it would be perfectly acceptable for respondents to return the volley with a withering salvo of counterclaims.
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This return is more than acceptable and shows management is doing a great job putting retained earnings to work.
The remaining investment may produce less return, but the risk is more acceptable.
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Yet even the really big firms are paying staff a lot but barely making acceptable profits on their newly enlarged capital bases Goldman's return on equity (ROE) was 10% in the third quarter.
" In light of the large numbers of birds he expects to return to the island over time, he believes it is an "acceptable price to pay.
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To turn to a specific, currently relevant example, if fixed-interest bonds are bad, but equity investments are acceptable, then what if an investor buys a non-voting equity instrument whose return is based on profit shared between him and the venture--with any profit above 6% given to the venture as a "reward"?
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