The average market return is also positive when either team loses in the Super Bowl.
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In order to earn more than the market return, you have to take money from somebody else.
He found that this smoothed the extremes of the ratio and improved its long-term stock market return forecasting ability.
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But indexed funds do not employ rocket scientists to reproduce the market return.
Austrian winemakers used the chemical at the same time as well and are only recently seeing their export market return.
Another, Pure Alpha, which has the standard two-and-twenty charges, aims at beating the market return but also at limiting risk.
Horton and Lennar both outperformed their peers, rising at 54.64% and 95.10% on the year, respectively, against a market return of 10.34%.
As for the authors, they advise buying index funds and simply attempting to capture a market return at the lowest possible trading cost.
Investors would not dream of paying a performance fee to traditional fund managers merely for matching the market return, yet they cheerfully reward private-equity managers for the same feat.
If a country is priced with expectations for very high future GDP growth, the occurrence of such expected growth may not translate into a superior stock market return, for example.
In the 1970s, for instance, the investment return was much higher than the market return, as the oil shock and the subsequent years of stagflation caused a stampede out of equities.
Considering lower income Americans, assuming they too could get a market return on monies saved, they, if they chose to save, would be made better off for consuming less and saving more.
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Using the classic Rule of 72, even the year-to-date, annualized stock market return of 3.83% implies it will take 19 years for a portfolio invested 100% in equities to double in value.
He observed that, while it was difficult to predict stock market performance in the near term (one-year horizon), there was a strong relationship between the price-earnings ratio and the long-term market return (10-year horizon).
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In any given year, the market return and the investment return can be a long way apart: the gap for American equities was over five percentage points in 105 out of 125 years of trading.
The arrival of the iPhone 5 will help the global smartphone market return to growth with projected shipments of 346.5 million in the second half of 2012, up from 272.3 million during the first six months of the year, as presented in Figure 1 attached.
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In the case of the bullish two-year note, you get three times the market's return but only for the first 12% to 35% of the market's return.
It took a quarter of a century for the market to return to pre-crash levels.
But if the government plans work, Singaporeans might get a stable market in return.
Instead of domestic politics the market will return to being driven by the "global situation" currently affecting finance markets, he added.
In the long term, the market will return to its steady state.
That, apparently, is the distance that a medieval horse could lug a cartload of produce to market and return home in a day.
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The agreement would give duty free and quota free access to the EU market in return to liberalisation of their own markets to EU imports.
Purchasing MBS to fuel the housing market merely delays the readjustment of relative prices that needs to occur before the U.S housing market can return to normal.
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The UK demanded safeguards on financial regulation and the single market in return for backing any change to EU treaties which paved the way for fiscal union across the eurozone.
The math is simple: If you think the stock market will return 10% a year for the next 10 years, you can lock in that return today by purchasing carefully selected junk bonds.
If you own the market, your return for the six months is a loss of 9%.
Again, it is transparent, low cost and should deliver a competitive market rate of return.
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Ideas to spur the bond market also quickly return to the vicious circle of declining investment.
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From 1988 to the beginning of this year, Collins' portfolios still averaged a market-beating return of 16.8% a year.
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