But I still have to improve my consistency, a little bit on my serve and also with my returns.
As with all columnists, Forbes audits my investment returns annually.
When he returns my smile, I see that he has two gold lower teeth, which light up the gloom.
The yellow bars are the returns my sister would have achieved if her orders had executed at the limit prices I gave her.
My mind began racing, calculating the returns I was forgoing by keeping my savings in a money market account rather than handing them to Sam who could deliver twice as much!
Finally I figured out how to rip the entire alarm system free of all household electrical wiring, which will probably prompt an expensive service call whenever electricity returns to my block.
But he has a theory of the economy that basically says, if I'm maximizing returns for my investors, for wealthy individuals like myself, then everybody is going to be better off.
But, even after I identified the value of Ted.com, I still faced the question of how to use it to create the same kind of returns for my employees and the firm.
But, my junk bond portfolio dwelled in double digit returns the past 5 years and still gets my new money.
In my opinion, the spectacular returns many funds quote are fraudulent-if not outright, then by omission.
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Last week, I sent an email to Amazon asking why the self-published version of my book is still experiencing returns.
That issue then returns me to my point earlier, which is that John Brennan's nomination ought to be considered on its merits, on his qualifications, not on disputes about an issue that did not involve John Brennan's nomination to be the CIA director, or Senator Hagel's nomination to be Secretary of Defense.
In my personal portfolio I have had returns over 30% per year since 2001.
Something which my scenario would predict: when investment returns are high in a competitive market then loss ratios are high, as insurers subsidise premiums out of investment income.
My own suspicion is that the increasing-returns mania of the mid-1990s is what drove this fallacy.
In my methodology, the objective is to generate returns in excess of those commensurate with the risk taken.
Returns are only allowed for up to 7 days after purchase. 6 months after the self-published version of Beautiful Disaster went off-sale my account was still seeing negative amounts for returns.
So a less exciting but potentially more potent idea is to increase one's savings rate given the possibility highlighted by my BAM Alliance colleague Larry Swedroe that lower returns across all asset classes may be in store.
My focus is on generating high risk-adjusted returns, i.e.
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To finish the story, I made a decision in 1997 that my clients would earn their fair share of market returns through a portfolio of very low-cost index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that track industry benchmarks.
More photos can do some good, but after five, my analysis suggests, profiles pass a point of diminishing returns.
My Buffett model does find some flaws with RINO involving its returns on equity and total capital.
Simply put I realized that everything I had been taught about investing, including my MBA, assured I would have, at best, returns no better than the overall market.
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My solution would be an SEC directive that prohibits advisers from using backtested returns in any marketing material.
Prior to the financial crisis my part in the stewardship of the fund helped it to generate significant returns to investors.
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Indeed, I own American Funds Growth Fund of America ( AGTHX) via my Fidelity sponsored 401(k) and I can report that its returns have been pretty unimpressive.
Simply put, debt instruments are where investment dollars are being funneled, but, while it may look like returns are growing, a bubble is being created that, like my tires, may pop at any time.
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Is my deal one of the 15 that will account for 96% of all venture returns?
In one of my recent cases, the evidence showed that the spouses had filed joint income tax returns throughout their marriage.
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