As easy returns ebb, pressure mounts to accept more risk.
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If it's so easy to juice returns with a covered-call strategy, why doesn't everybody do it?
Returns are easy and there is a return form in the box with the package.
The big returns of the 1990s made big stock returns seem easy too easy.
The biggest supply-side obstacle to future growth may no longer be (if it ever was) excessive regulation or inflexible labour markets, but a corporate culture that finds it easy to tolerate low returns and difficult to tolerate outright failure.
Tony says it is difficult to predict stock market returns but relatively easy to predict volatility.
In 1988, he got attracted to International Dairy Queen and bought 50 shares of its class A stock mainly because he thought it was a company that Buffett would favor, given its good products, easy-to-understand operations, high returns on equity, little debt, and a reasonable price-earnings ratio.
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Perhaps in an era of 12 percent average returns, their employees were happy with the easy pretax money, two-point lag or no.
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But London Olympic champion Tiki Gelana said it will not be easy to put Boston out of her mind when she returns to the scene of her triumph last August.
Many clients are unaware of the historical returns for asset classes and may assume that it is easy to regularly select the top performing asset managers.
Sundaram adds that since options trading is ultimately a bet on volatility, retail investors would probably have a difficult time estimating returns, since institutional investors don't have an easy time of it, either.
This is a relatively easy point to fix: eliminate the corporate income tax and then tax capital returns at the same rates as other income.
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The expectation of higher returns on capital in America has attracted foreign money and made it easy to finance America's big current-account deficit in recent years.
With long-term earnings and revenue growth both above 19%, attractive valuations (the stock's PEG ratio is 0.47), high returns on equity, and a decent dividend yield, it's easy to see why Reese's guru strategies find the stock a good one for 2010 and beyond.
We prefer to rely on benchmarks and risk-adjusted ratios because they are easy-to-present, concrete numbers, and they do provide context to investment returns.
The elite may no longer find it so easy to move itself and its capital from country to country, depending on where the returns are highest and the taxes lowest.
It is easy to see why drug companies are excited by such advertising, even though nobody is yet sure how good the returns are.
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