In theory, the resulting efficiencies should mean that Germany could raise its poor average rate of return on invested capital.
The clothing outfitter's average expected rate of return over the next 10 years is 17.8%, according to Reese's Buffett strategy, another reason it gets strong interest from the Buffett model.
While the amount will not be diversified, it will receive a guaranteed rate of return, which could be an average of prime rate plus 2%.
Over the past 15 years and 40 shows, Baruch says, his company has posted an average annual 40% internal rate of return.
The spread between the highest savings rates on the market and an average rate can be many times the return.
For financials, the Buffett-based approach also looks at the return on assets rate, which must average at least 1% over the past 10 years.
Caxton Global Investment returned 0.7% net of fees in 2011, better than the average hedge fund but far from the rate of return Caxton investors have been accustomed to. 2012 has been no kinder to the firm, down -3.4% net of fees through July 2012.
Those born right after World War II will earn, on average, a 2.4% real rate of return.
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In fact, the 14.6% average return in years of an NFC win is exactly double the rate of return in years when AFC teams take home the championship.
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That is a relatively optimistic prediction, for it would merely return the bankruptcy rate close to its long-term average after an abnormally trouble-free period, and it assumes only a mild recession in America.
The dispersion is somewhat larger when measuring average annual returns (annualized return, recall, is the compounded or geometric rate of return during a multiple-year time period).
The rate of return on easy access accounts has fallen by an average of 68% over the past two years, according to financial information service Moneyfacts.
In the 433 months since trading freely following 1973's demise of the Bretton Woods exchange-rate system, gold has had a 7.1% average annual return, achieved solely from six relatively brief spikes.
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