More deals mean less risk but also a smaller chance of a huge average return.
Overall, Combs made 33% for 4 years, an average return of slightly over 8%.
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But in September, they have fallen by 0.8%, the only month with a negative average return.
It was positive only 35% of the time, with an average return of -0.2.%.
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Placing asset categories on the efficient frontier requires knowing their historical average return and standard deviation.
In the twelve months before OECD leading indicators peak, markets on average return 24%, UBS found.
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The average return on assets declined slightly to 1.19% (it was 1.23% in 2009).
And sometimes people do find a method of getting that higher than average return.
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The preset repurchase price gives Symphony and its co-investors an average return of 32% a year.
Neither film performed particularly well and that pulled down the average return on investment for Pattinson.
Longleaf Partners Small-Cap Fund has had a ten-year average return of 11.5% versus 8.5% for peers.
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Weinblatt's USAA fund has a 15-year average return of 6% and yields 4.9%, according to Lipper.
In recent years, Unocal's average return on capital employed has been higher than ChevronTexaco's, 9.4% vs. 8.7%.
In the 13 years following a non-dome Super Bowl the average return is up 15 percent .
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Since its beginning in 1993 the team had an estimated annual average return of more than 20%.
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The problem is that the average return of those funds over the past year was a pitiful 0.02%.
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Since 1990, emerging markets have yielded an annual average return of 3.5%, compared with 13% on Wall Street.
The Vanguard 500 Index Fund's annual average return since 1976 has been 13% after taxes for an upper-bracket investor.
The average return for the 9, 402 mutual funds tracked by Morningstar was a negative 17.8 percent for the quarter.
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The smartphone ETF returned a negative 3% over the year through March, trailing the Morningstar tech category's average return.
The average return in the year after a Packers win is 23 percent.
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Its five-year average return on capital of 15% shows no sign of diminishing.
Indeed, in many years the average return on investment in these paintings did not even keep pace with inflation.
The average return on Barclays High Yield Index has slipped to historic lows.
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Leveraged Company Stock Fund has an impressive five-year annual average return of 35%.
So even in the most favorable scenario, Facebook investors would still have above average risk with a very average return.
Over that period the Index (not including dividends) had logged a compound annual average return of more than 12 percent.
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That healthy average return is boosted by a couple of outsized returns of more than 9% in 2002 and 2009.
Over the past five years, May is third best, with an average return of 1.09%, trailing only March and April.
Its called a liquidity premium and its variance over time drives both difference in volatility and average return between investment vehicles.
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