Still, she points out that some returns are hard to quantify in normal accounting terms.
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Twenty years of too-low returns is hard (if not impossible) to make up particularly if you now need cash flow.
The bad reason is that it offers a sniff of yield in a world where returns are hard to come by.
They also have to take a hard look at the returns they get on their investments in research, graduate programs and intercollegiate athletics.
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If only everybody would slash capacity rather than rates ie, write less business at higher rates when times get hard then returns would be steadier.
Although it is solid enough, by Japanese standards, in corporate lending, like all Japanese banks MTFG faces a hard time making decent returns.
Examining the scores of variables that influenced each deal, the firm evaluated hard measures that influenced returns, such as leverage, multiple expansion, revenue growth and margins.
Many corporate pension funds rely on annual return assumptions in the 7-8% range to meet future obligations, but such returns are hard to find in the real world today.
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The move should not only make the returns on hard assets more appealing, but it should also put some downside price pressure on the U.S. dollar index, or at least limit its upside movement.
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Such a move by the Fed should be gold and commodity-market bullish, as it would not only make the returns on hard assets more appealing, but it would also likely put some downside price pressure on the U.S. dollar index, or at least limit its upside movement.
Needless to say, such lousy investment returns make it hard to raise capital.
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Second, private-sector decisions about saving and investment may sometimes be based on false hopes about profits and stockmarket returns hard to believe, given Wall Street's fine record these past few years, but true nonetheless.
Many microlenders break even, but few produce the kind of returns that might entice hard-nosed capitalists to give them their backing.
There has been much discussion about high correlations in the past few years and how hard it is to find distinct returns.
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Tao expects capital to continue flowing out of time deposits at local banks offering rates as low as 0.001% to about 0.2% in favor of hard assets like property that offer greater returns.
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When he returns he will be on his favourite hard court surfaces and he understands what he needs to do.
There was a time when thoughtful money managers considered whether they could deliver competitive returns to investors that entrusted them with hard-earned savings.
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Bromides aside, it's hard to print great news when you don't earn the returns needed to invest in it.
But there is little that can be done to prevent cash flowing to wherever the returns are highest right now, that means hard-up developers.
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But there are plenty of hard-core Kennedy lovers who treat him like a hero when he returns to his district in the eastern part of Rhode Island.
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Currently, these sovereign wealth funds don't have to disclose their holdings, their investment objectives, their investment returns, or their management structures, so it's hard to assess whether they're introducing unnecessary risks into our markets, hard to know whether they're buying or selling assets to make a profit or make a point.
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Quite simply we should change the law so that the IRS must pay us, pay us in cold hard cash, for the time it takes us to fill out our tax returns.
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That hard-nosed, numbers-driven approach to deploying capital has consistently generated superior returns for GD shareholders over the past 15 years, which is why most of the other big players in the sector now emulate it.
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When she returns home, she transfers the photos again onto a one-terabyte desktop hard drive.
For this gamble to pay the sorts of long-term returns the Bush Administration hopes for, however, it must be rooted in hard-headed realism, based on transparency and practical measures.
When you take a hard look at efficiency, you can see that it's never a good source of higher returns.
What is more, it is hard to know how hedge funds actually fare, since indices that track industry performance tend to overstate the returns.
The practice includes hard assets like chairs and x-ray machines, but it also has a customer base that religiously returns every six months for a cleaning.
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As disappointing as this news might be to some investors, it is hard to fault the company for opting to abandon a business that has not produced its expected rate of returns.
But Ruffins returns to tiny joints like Bullet's to tap into the spirit that comes from a mix of hard-to-impress neighborhood types and enthusiastic out-of-towners.
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