Efficiency is emissions free, creates local (and non-exportable) jobs, and repeatedly demonstrates a respectable benefit to investment ratio.
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The key figure participants should focus on is the investment expense ratio charged by mutual funds for assets you hold in the plan.
Vietnam's ratio of investment to economic growth has fallen by roughly a quarter in recent years.
With hours worked stagnant, our main source of growth must come from productivity gains, which depends on investment to raise the ratio of capital to labor.
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He experiments with raising the ratio of investment to consumption, changing the nature and conditions of investment and shifting the balance from private to public spending, while staying within tight constraints on the use of resources.
Its high investment-to-GDP ratio is often flagged as evidence of overinvestment, yet its capital stock per person is only 5% of America's or Japan's.
Sharpe, the Stanford finance professor who devised the widely used Sharpe Ratio for measuring investment risk, recently took another looked at actively managed funds.
U., based on the ratio of overall VC investment as a percentage of each country's gross domestic product.
Simply put, its a ratio that captures relative investment per deal.
India's medium-term growth outlook is positive due to a young population and corresponding low dependency ratio, healthy savings and investment rates, and increasing integration into the global economy.
More developed economies, such as South Korea and Singapore, where both the rate of investment and the capital-to-labour ratio are relatively high, are probably not underinvesting.
And at the same time, it will be shrinking its investment bank, thus cutting the denominator in the ratio, its loans and investments.
But even comparing costs can get complicated: A commission-free ETF may cost more, over time, than a similar fund that requires paying a commission but has a lower expense ratio, notes Joel Dickson, senior investment strategist at Vanguard Group.
Instead, focus on "investment odds, " which multiply the card odds by the ratio of your potential winnings to your potential losses.
Coupled with high relative strength in the previous twelve months, a low price-to-sales ratio is one of the most potent combinations of investment criteria.
But setting that aside, a 30-to-1 benefit ratio to keep our air clean sounds like a mighty wise investment to me.
But he said it is a different situation when one approaches asset class as a fundamental investment and add commodities to achieve a certain rate of return or Sharpe ratio.
Last year, actively-managed target-date funds had an expense ratio on average, of .58 percent, according to the Investment Company Institute.
The ratio, devised by a Nobel-prize winning economist, looks at the relationship between investment returns and their variability.
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Limiting your investment to 100 or so stocks in a typical mutual fund and paying a 1.2% expense ratio in the process is often a losing proposition.
He says the U.S. can either change the ratio of preferences for family-based immigration or raise the hard cap on people who bring investment or skills into the country.
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Michael Trippitt of Oriel Securities said HSBC had been looked at unfairly by the market for having a relatively low core capital ratio, a key measure of a bank's reserves to back up its lending and investment portfolio.
Equity fund investors in 2012 paid an average expense ratio of .77 percent for equity funds that are actively managed by professionals, according to the Investment Company Institute.
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