However, margin expansion will continue to be hindered by competitive pricing, low investment yields and decreasing capital reserves.
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Net, Fibre Channel is high ROI, legacy Ethernet is low investment and converged products (recently introduced) are the growth engine.
Companies with low investment grade rating are calling outstanding 7 percent preferreds and replacing them with paper yielding 5.5 percent.
This ambivalence, combined with low investment, explains why the province of Tehran, home to 12m people, boasts fewer than 50 cinemas.
Throughout all this political paralysis and instability, the Philippine economy has limped along, hobbled by shabby infrastructure, low investment and massive public debt.
There are other ways to shrink the gap between Germany's high savings rate and relatively low investment, the underlying reason for its current-account surplus.
As in all productivity debates, the true size of this gap, the reasons for it and the implications are all hotly debated, but low investment is thought to be a prime culprit.
Companies that once helped shoulder the retirement burden through funded pension plans are cutting back their commitments now that low investment returns, low interest rates and higher life expectancy have created frightening deficits.
Mainland regulation, supposed to prevent money going offshore, bars insurers from investing in overseas equities, from putting more than 15% into Chinese equities and from investing in corporate bonds with low investment grades.
Low investment-grade paper still gets my money because the yield disparity with 10-year Treasuries, at least 300 basis points, is still attractive if you believe Treasury yields stick near 3% for a year or two.
The low investment advisory fee (%) on passive investing (on an index) compared to that on active investing, was partly compensated by an improvement in equity market valuations with a recovery in financial markets across the globe.
The rising burden of defined-benefit schemes is forcing some firms to restrict them to existing staff and to put new recruits into new, defined-contribution schemes, thereby transferring to the employee the risk of low investment returns in the future.
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"An ageing population, recent legislative changes, lower interest rates and low investment returns, an increased tax burden and the government's ongoing pensions reform programme are factors that affect all employees and employers, " said Professor Bill Wakeham, chairman of the employers' Pensions Forum .
These are the low-investment, high-upside players who have shown an ability to compete at an elite level.
She said Labour had "worked tirelessly to attract low carbon investment and to strengthen the UK's green economy".
Like traditional no-load mutual funds they allow investors to access a portfolio of securities in a single purchase, generally with a low minimum investment.
Hitting the energy-efficiency targets would reduce demand for those permits, in which case their price might fall too low to encourage further investment into low-carbon technologies.
The cloud is a low capital investment method for companies, such as social networks or games, to develop, deliver and scale without expensive upfront infrastructure investment.
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And that's one reason why the Scottish government is very, very keen to give these annual Scottish Low Carbon Investment conferences (this is the second) a high priority.
Moreover, the option of buying unsubsidized phones has been around for quite some time now, but most still prefer going the subsidized route due to the low upfront investment.
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Mr Galan, who is addressing the Scottish Low Carbon Investment Conference in Edinburgh, outlined progress in upgrading the electricity network which the company said would lead to the creation of 1, 500 jobs.
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You can do this on your own by reading investment books, or you can get help from a low-cost investment advisor.
"Even though the odds are very low, the investment is very small, " he said.
That's why, under an income tax, we pretty much have to have low rates on investment.
The big rating agencies consider this outfit to be at the low end of investment grade.
Undoubtedly corruption is one reason for these low levels of investment, but there are others.
And one cause of low foreign direct investment in Canada is the magnetic lure of America itself.
While a 90-basis point headwind is substantial in a low-return investment environment, it is hardly impossible to overcome.
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