By 1975, it resumed its growth trajectory with close to a 20% return on average equity.
In Japan, the average equity exposure is far lower, where bonds account for 48.8% of funds.
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This is based on the average equity allocation recommended by Wall Street strategists.
The average equity real estate investment trust yields a high 7.4% these days, taxed as ordinary income in most cases.
The average equity-fund investor saw annual returns of only 3.49% in the 20 years through 2011, according to the latest analysis from Dalbar.
Even the average equity fund's annual fees of 1.4% seem steep.
Over time, says fund researcher Lipper , the average equity fund investor investing through a taxable account gives up 2.5 percentage points of annual return to the taxman.
According to NAREIT, the U.S. equity REIT sector boasts an overall year-to-date total return of 23.57 percent (through August 1), outperforming the average equity REIT sector by around 36 percent.
With the average diversified equity fund in America returning 24% last year and the average bond fund earning 8.86%, generous fees may seem a reasonable price for expert stock-and bond-picking.
But the average American equity holdings among our institutional investors dropped by a percentage point in the fourth quarter.
They have trimmed average recommended equity holdings to 52% of their total portfolios.
Yet if you look at the ten years where Republicans had complete control, the average real equity return is still negative.
In the fourth quarter, however, it reported a 10.48% return on average allocated equity in its consumer and business banking segment, an increase from 9.47% the previous quarter.
Instead our statisticians took a year-by-year average of equity performance, weighted by each fund's assets at midyear, and strung those five numbers together to get the family's stock market performance.
The euphoria many endowments have had for private equity resulted in the average endowment, pre-crisis, allocating 11.8% of assets to private equity, above the average allocation for all types of institutional investors, which stands at 8.8% today.
And the average diversified American equity fund is down 41% for the year, according to Lipper.
Japanese firms are deeply indebted by the standards of other countries, with an average debt-equity ratio of 4:1.
In 2006 investment banks made an average return on equity of 17%.
IBCA, a credit-rating agency, the average return on equity earned by the world's 500 biggest commercial banks has climbed above 10% only once, in 1993.
But there seems to be broad consensus among industry observers that average returns on equity through the economic cycle will be in the low- to mid-teens henceforth, well down on the 20%-plus achieved before the current crisis.
Although Goldman Sachs predicts that Japanese companies' average return on equity may quadruple to 8% over the next two years, this is still far below the 30% return on equity that American companies are expected to achieve this year.
Over the past five years it has racked up a 28% average return on equity, along with earnings-per-share growth of 64% a year -- enough to vault it onto the list of Forbes Global's 300 Best Small Companies (Nov. 2, 1998).
Over the past five years it has racked up a 28% average return on equity along with earnings-per-share growth of 64% a year -- enough to vault it to the number one spot on the list of Forbes 200 Best Small Companies in America (Nov. 2, 1998).
There, top managers also owned 14% of the equity on average, but other employees held a mere 2%.
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The average daily volume of equity securities traded in the U.S. stock markets has consistently climbed over the past few years.
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Whereas Europe's average ratio of public equity value to gdp is 114% and the U.S.' ratio is nearly 200%, Germany's is just 67%.
Traders looking for a bounce in the shares off their 10-week moving average should consider the equity's August 18 call or September 17.5 call.
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