His innovation was to stress repeatedly that market share matters only if it generates profits and high returns, and to use cost-cutting to reinforce this approach.
Enhanced expensing more fully reflects the real cost of equipment than depreciation, raising after-tax returns on investment.
Instead, allocate your assets for the long-term based on your financial need, and select low-cost index funds and ETFs to capture the returns of asset classes you select.
Investors have been so conditioned to focus on maximizing upside, they do not fully appreciate the cost of near-term losses in hindering long-term returns.
Verizon should be able to handle 4G traffic in a more cost-effective way than 3G, which will eventually boost its returns on invested capital, said Chaplin.
To finish the story, I made a decision in 1997 that my clients would earn their fair share of market returns through a portfolio of very low-cost index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that track industry benchmarks.
To increase the odds of higher net returns, I like to seek out low-cost investment vehicles such as DFA funds, Vanguard index funds and ETFs.
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The first banks whose investments fail to yield Pangloss returns get bailed out, but the cost of the bail-outs reduces governments' willingness to provide future rescues.
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Asian exporters face slower growth abroad, high raw-material prices, growing competition from China and diminishing returns from cost cutting.
Add-ons, like e-filing, preparing local returns or rental rebates, may also cost you.
The higher cost of Sharia-compliant financial products, whether expressed as higher fees or lower returns, is simply the price certain consumers are willing to pay for feeling righteous.
Thus the spectre of disestablishment returns, not as a constitutional issue but as part of a cost-benefit analysis.
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But diversified asset classes cost more to trade and involve higher management fees, expenses that eat into pension-fund returns.
However it turns out not to be a prohibitive cost because very few customers take LL Bean up on their offers of never-ending product returns or employee-expedited delivery.
College endowments have recovered somewhat, but both their investment policies and the availability of alternative investments have changed substantially, so the stellar returns of years past are no longer available to reduce the out-of-pocket cost to students.
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