We recently analyzed the returns of a hypothetical global portfolio as well as a hypothetical US-only portfolio ( 1) over rolling 3-year periods between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2011, with each rolling period resetting monthly (see graph below).
A. Congressman, that is a hypothetical question, and I'm not going to answer a hypothetical question.
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Let's look at a hypothetical example involving a Treasury due two and a half years from now.
We compared online quotes for each car for a hypothetical young driver, a 22-year-old San Diego male with a ticket.
The report cites a hypothetical example of how a young person was denied promotion because her employer found drunken photos of her from her university days.
In one experiment, 78 participants considered a hypothetical scenario in which a well-known firm is preparing to launch a new version of its color printer.
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The five-year performance quoted above (like the ones in the tables beginning on page 136) is a time-weighted return, measuring results for a hypothetical investor who put in a sum at the beginning and stood pat.
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Sebelius used the example of a hypothetical female small business owner with a child.
Fair market value of the IRA is determined by what a hypothetical willing buyer would have paid a willing seller.
The chart plots what would have happened to a hypothetical dollar invested in T bills by a top-bracket taxpayer.
The parties agreed the royalty should be determined based on a hypothetical bargain that would have been struck between a willing licensor and a willing licensee, but they disagreed on whether the royalty should be based on a 1982 bargain or a 2002 bargain.
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It showed a reporter this case study, making sure to call it a hypothetical example designed to impress Ebay into giving it a contract (it worked).
My picks declined an average 6% by year-end and would have left you 3% poorer than a hypothetical investor putting the same money at the same dates into a no-load index fund.
Sarasvathy met personally with all of her subjects, presenting each with a case study about a hypothetical start-up and 10 decisions that the founder of such a company would have to make in building the venture.
If Lewis was one of those, he was perhaps egged on by a hypothetical projection from the broker that assumed Microsoft's stock price would rise 25% a year for the next nine years.
She's unfazed by polls showing her lead shrinking in a hypothetical match with New York Mayor RUDY GIULIANI and advice from her strategists that her chances are about even in a race that would be largely fought upstate and on Long Island.
The days are gone when clients could be persuaded with charts purporting to show that the stock markets rise 10 percent a year, or demonstrating how a certain hypothetical investment strategy could get their nest egg to a million dollars by the time they reach 65 years old.
This hypothetical individual maintains a 75% stock and 25% bond allocation their entire working life.
Mandel has a hypothetical example to illustrate the damage that the AMT can do.
To send people to the polls to answer a hypothetical question is to invite trouble.
So when you were answering the questions before, it's not just a hypothetical or speculation.
And so you're asking me to answer a hypothetical that is never going to occur.
Dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that is causing the expansion of the universe.
"We found the one that was in Antwerp, " Friedman says, conjuring a hypothetical antique.
In one demo, I saw a short animated clip from a hypothetical high-definition Zelda game.
Last year Money magazine sent tax data for a hypothetical, two-income family to 45 different tax experts.
Mr Hope replied: "It was a hypothetical question" and added that the comment "was not an admission".
Whether United would have challenged Real's dominance of European football during the 1950s remains a hypothetical question.
By taking a forensic neuroscience approach, we can piece together a hypothetical picture of the zombie brain.
It is undeniable that a hypothetical stock buyer of 25 years ago would have beaten an owner of Treasury bonds.
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