Nokia never made the case powerfully enough that its emerging market portfolio is a huge long-term advantage for the company.
You have to have massive technology disruption in a large market that gives you a long-term differentiated advantage.
FORBES: Vinod Khosla: Investors Need To Make Smart, Risky Bets On Green Tech
They may be sacrificing long-term growth for a short-term profit advantage.
Continued profit taking for long-term investors to take advantage of the low-capital gains tax rates still in effect could be an obvious factor, though hard to substantiate.
To maintain a dynamic, long-term national competitive advantage, our educational system needs to be about much more than simply teaching the basics and hoping innovators emerge.
And so both sides have to begin to think about their long-term strategic interests instead of worrying about can I gain a short-term tactical advantage here or there, and say to themselves, what's the big picture and how do we get this done?
Although it is true that by proclaiming his devotion to the so-called peace process, Netanyahu was able to deflect some of the White House's attacks against him, the short-term advantage it brought him this week in Washington is eclipsed by the long-term damage such an approach causes the country.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama's failure, Netanyahu's opportunity
But while worldwide prices have improved 40% year-on-year, UK Coal has been unable to take full advantage of the rise thanks to long-term contracts.
An added advantage is that long-term CD rates generally exceed standard savings account interest rates.
"In Libya, we led from behind, and I don't think the long-term outcome has necessarily been to our advantage, " Mr. Hoffman said.
Even including this recent advantage, the long-term margins of superiority achieved by these theoretically constructed back-tested portfolios are not large--between 1% and 2% per year.
That is unfortunate as only long-term strategies will now win back any economic advantage.
FORBES: Erskine Bowles: National Debt Threatens U. S. Innovation
These particular options have the tax advantage that, for long-term investors, the paper gain on exercise is not recognized until the stock is sold and it is then taxed at long-term capital gain rates.
Yokosawa and Oberweis look for companies with accelerating earnings growth (at least 30% a year), a price-to-earnings ratio no more than twice the long-term growth rate, and a defensible competitive advantage in a growing market.
The researchers took advantage of data from the long-term Nurses' Health Study, which has enrolled more than 230, 000 female registered nurses since 1976 and which surveys them every two years.
WSJ: The Research Report: Slapping On a Skin Patch to Combat Hay Fever
This would allow traders and active investors to begin trading the fund from the long side for a change, taking advantage of short-term weakness rather than short-term strength as the bull market in FXI is restored.
Meanwhile, though, the U.S. economy has yet to demonstrate that it is gaining traction, and borrowers continue to take advantage of rock-bottom interest rates to secure long-term funding at low costs.
He argues that the latest incident is part of a long-term pattern of Google using its dominant position in search to give an unfair advantage to other Google products.
"This is an unusual case where the pricing moves that the players are making are not about trying to get unilateral advantage so much as they are trying to put the industry on a sustainable, long-term footing, " Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett said.
For example, while the short-term advantage of outsourcing manufacturing processes allows for a satisfactory quarterly balance sheet, this strategy lacks long-term vision and can be an inefficient means of overseas operation.
Publically-held companies with built-out infrastructure have a competitive advantage over the start-ups and therefore get the attention of institutional investors, looking for long-term plays.
FORBES: Why Cloud Computing Is Accelerating In The Enterprise
应用推荐