As we said, the steady positive returns are punctuated by the occasional ugly surprise.
Notice the positive returns for the three ETFs at the bottom of the table.
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Conversely, the only asset class that can continually deliver positive returns is cash or cash equivalent investments.
IMI, a financial conglomerate, have delivered positive returns to investors, they have badly trailed the Milan stockmarket.
Meanwhile, eco-friendly behavior has continued to earn significant positive returns, but the magnitude of the increases has declined.
Last year New Zealand was one of the few positive returns of 2011.
We were one of few funds that had positive returns in 2007, 2008.
Citing QE2 and the resulting market rally, he sees the potential for positive returns on equities in the coming year.
Since being bailed out in the heat of the financial crisis, AIG has actually delivered positive returns to the U.S. taxpayer.
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Data compiled by Spinoff Advisors shows that just half of this years' 16 major stock spinoffs have yielded positive returns so far.
In our view, this is an excellent tradeoff, since we believe large, sustainable positive returns will not materialize in the new market realities.
In this case, the older brother had positive returns during the first couple of years in retirement, while the younger brother had losses.
He further observed that as bad as things have been, a diversified portfolio (meaning holding stocks and bonds) would have produced positive returns.
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Gold advocates try to make their case based on the positive returns from the bottom of the gold market in 2001 until recently.
Given that defaults have been high and recovery rates low, it is surprising that high-yield bonds have earned positive returns so far this year.
In contrast to the stock market, which over long periods offers positive returns linked to the growth in the economy, commodity trading is a zero-sum game.
We find that 25% of the subsidiaries in our sample are repurchased before 2007, and that parent shareholders earn positive returns when these repurchases are announced.
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Now, while the public would be ill-advised to leverage its positions, there may have been ETFs or mutual funds loaded with mortgages that turned in positive returns.
The percentages of positive returns, though, are not much different.
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In 17 out of 19 cases high yield bonds produced positive returns despite negative returns on Treasures and in 19 out of 19 cases high yield bonds outperformed Treasuries.
For many years, Yorkville Advisors was one of the biggest hedge fund firms specializing in making private investments in public equities, mostly in penny stocks, and consistently posted positive returns.
The big key to this fund is, it is a rules-based asset allocation methodology, designed and has an objective of producing positive returns, regardless of the condition of the financial market.
The SEC accused Mr. Kapur of continuing to report positive returns for the hedge fund even after it was liquidated and ceased trading, as a way of attracting investors to his other funds.
Reducing the burden of malaria does not just lower the number of deaths of young children, it also provides positive returns for the long-term well-being of children no longer exposed or quickly treated.
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Investors seek positive returns, but also reduced volatility.
Fund investors dutifully piled in on the misguided premise that these funds would yield positive returns even when the market fell, says Louis Stanasolovich, chief executive of Legend Financial Advisors, a fee-only wealth management firm.
Despite the uptick in venture-backed companies filing for initial public offerings in the fourth quarter of 2010, the overall tepid IPO market has made it difficult for venture firms to post positive returns and to find exits.
If 7-10 year Treasuries produced positive returns in all three of these worst inflation spikes since 1972, and one of those was even a positive real return, is it really prudent to scare people into owning much riskier assets?
But for investors in NIR funds, the most important thing is retrieving their investments that have largely been locked up since Ribotsky froze redemptions back in 2008 after reporting some nine years of positive returns with only three down months.
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