Or is he prepared to allow high profits in return for high levels of investment?
Governments are also under tremendous pressure to keep their pension fund rate of return high: the lower the rate of return on investment, the greater the pension obligations become.
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As you immerse yourself in 2013 planning, plan for a high return on the investment of time and human resources associated with your giving and volunteer program by allocating appropriate dollars to fuel these efforts.
Investors following Makin's logic can bail out of a high-return investment too soon.
Families, burdened by the high price of college, are questioning their return on investment.
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"Despite the widespread appeal of its products and their high return on investment, VMware does not seem immune to recessionary budgets, " she added.
The greater the spread between the high-interest debt and the rate of return on investment, the greater the financial advantage for paying off the debt first.
He and his white shoe legal counsel argued that in an era of high inflation (1980s), an oil and gas investment which had a projected return of 20% was, in fact, conservative because the return would only keep pace with inflation.
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For a more dramatic example, consider the following: An investment in Riverbed Technology (RVBD), a developer of software to accelerate application performance and data transmission speeds on WANs, would have generated a 6x return, versus an investment in Clearwire (CLWR), a provider of portable high-speed wireless broadband services, which would have generated a 0.3x return.
Given the hundreds of billions of dollars in play here each and every year, a small investment has a very high return.
The return on investment of going to Harvard or another top-10 business school has remained relatively high, but the return on going to lesser schools is very questionable.
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