Once the exorbitant fees are taken into account, returns look much less impressive than the industry's promoters claim, and than an illiquid, leveraged and long-duration investment would warrant.
As a share-based investment, this is more risky than a cash account, because returns are not guaranteed.
When asked what would be different in future, his aides say it's too early to be specific but that the media and the public will be able to hold him to account if he returns to his old ways.
Some have gone so far as to suggest that Governor Romney may have failed to disclose that account on his original returns and cured that deficiency by participating in the 2009 IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program.
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Save in an account that is earning real returns.
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Dividends and earnings are likely to account for nearly all of the returns in common stocks for the foreseeable future.
In efforts to add an air of legitimacy to the scheme, investors received periodic account statements purporting to show profitable returns of 5% per week (or 20% monthly) and showing that Driver had never had an unprofitable month of trading.
Advocates of Social Security privatization typically note that if the average worker was allowed to invest the Social Security payroll taxes paid by him and his employer in a 401k account earning (historically) average returns, he would enjoy a much higher monthly income over the course of an average retirement than that afforded by Social Security.
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Is my deal one of the 15 that will account for 96% of all venture returns?
At the time most funds were a vast collection of stocks and bonds that could barely match the returns on a bank savings account.
Returns are only allowed for up to 7 days after purchase. 6 months after the self-published version of Beautiful Disaster went off-sale my account was still seeing negative amounts for returns.
The problem is that Uncle Sam has made it tougher to account for the new goodies on your tax returns.
Less than 2% of films account for 80% of box-office returns.
That is because the index returns don't take into account the falling yen, which declined by nearly 6% in February, the biggest monthly drop since 2009.
The net effect is improved returns (especially vs. a savings account) while still maintaining a degree of flexibility.
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One recent case: In New Jersey a financial planner named Thomas Swarts promised clients 14% returns in a "special money market account" he knew of.
When we think of financial margins, a brokerage account comes to mind, using leverage to maximize investment returns.
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Sole proprietors report business income on their individual tax returns and, the IRS says, they account for the biggest share of the tax gap, which is the difference between what taxpayers owe each year under the law and what they actually pay.
Case in point, a user on the MobileRead forums reports being locked out of his account for what was termed an "extraordinary" rate of returns (that is, he returned electronics that arrived damaged or defective).
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Increased protection of natural fisheries is leading to better returns for at least some fish farmers, who now account for half the world's aquatic harvest.
Depending on the account or fund, fees can vary in their negative impact on returns.
The majority of us are under a CEO mandate to improve marketing effectiveness, while most of us are struggling to account for how our budgets are spent and how to quantify the associated returns from this spend.
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If rebalancing were sure to enhance returns, then you could coin money by going long a rebalanced account while going short an unrebalanced account.
As it is, funds can quietly take tens of thousands of dollars from an investor's account yet fulfill disclosure obligations by printing a chart in a prospectus containing hypothetical returns.
My mind began racing, calculating the returns I was forgoing by keeping my savings in a money market account rather than handing them to Sam who could deliver twice as much!
In fact for certain prominent liberal arts colleges on the list like Vassar College, Pomona College and Amherst College, private gifts from grateful graduates account for nearly all of their income outside of tuition, fees and investment returns.
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First of all, it does not take into account the effect of investment fees, such as management fees and trading commissions, on your returns.
E-filed returns bring quicker refunds, too, and they can be made directly to a bank account.
The account seems to have been closed early in 2010, but was the income in fact reported on earlier tax returns?
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