You see, there is a boost in returns when the dollar falls against a foreign currency.
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We will maintain our historic focus on operational excellence, while combining improvements in returns on invested capital with revenue growth.
More than half of the gap in returns can be attributed to performance chasing and other bad investing habits, Dalbar found.
The formula was actually able to tell you which group of companies was going to do well next year in returns.
Hedge funds had a difficult time raking in returns amid volatile markets.
Obtaining detailed knowledge about the mortgage servicers, credit quality and even the location of the underlying homes makes for a huge difference in returns.
Most stock pickers have portfolios with dozens or hundreds of investments, so getting a few calls wrong generally doesn't make a big dent in returns.
The difference in returns through 11 election cycles is quite remarkable.
First, what you receive in returns is by definition after expenses.
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The venture business is now 12 years into a slump in returns that has discouraged even the most enthusiastic investors and limited partners in the space.
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Public pension managers may feel particular pressure to follow the trend because of actuarial expectations that they will wring 8% or so in returns out of their assets each year.
The more volatile the returns are, the more distorted the numbers will be so this is an extreme example but even a small difference in returns can have a huge impact.
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However, the tax efficiency of bond ETFs is not a big factor, because capital gains do not play as big of a part in bond returns as they do in stock returns.
To facilitate large-value transactions and to assist in returns and merchant chargebacks, Balanced intends to add an option for bank ACH credits and debits as a payment choice in the near future.
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They looked at the returns earned by investors in American shares between 1982 and 1997, and calculated how much of the differences in returns could be predicted from traditional financial indicators based on company accounts.
Yet if they begin to learn more about the success rates and efficiencies of women in business, tech, and startups, perhaps they will begin to invest in more women-led businesses, and perhaps even see improvement in returns and outcomes.
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In fact, the Brinson, Hood and Beebower study a lot of advisors chant about demonstrated that 90% or more of the variance in returns among large pension plans was explained merely by their allocation to stocks, bonds and cash.
For instance, a fund with an attractive Sharpe ratio over the past 10 years would have managed to bring in returns to compensate investors for the risk it took through the recession of the early 2000s, the subsequent boom years, the recession that started in 2008 and the volatility of last year.
Despite recent turbulence in the markets, returns in Chile over the 17-year life of the scheme have greatly exceeded the derisory returns implicit in the earlier pay-as-you-go system.
Twenty percent of the levy is reflected in normal returns (essentially, equal to the return from low-risk bonds) and 60 percent in any additional returns received by shareholders.
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John Kerry in early returns in Washington's Democratic caucuses, which Dean had hoped would give his faltering campaign a new spark.
The World Bank calculates that import tariffs lowered returns in Brazilian farming by 5% in 1997, whereas tariffs reduced returns in capital-intensive manufacturing by a full 22%.
This principle of diversification works in increasing returns and in reducing risk.
Though in theory returns on capital should be much higher in the developing world, where economies remain labour-intensive, in practice the story is more complicated.
Such a return-chasing approach might be justified if investors were rightly anticipating that a short-term improvement in the returns of a particular hedge fund indicated a long-term shift in favour of its style.
Continued low rates are resulting in poor returns for savers, with a number of the best deals being pulled already in 2010.
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