In other words, are we getting a higher return from value stocks, or merely taking on more risk.
He stops short of proclaiming a return to the huge market value of the past and warns that a crash will recur, someday.
Then you each sell a 40% interest to the trusts in return for a promissory note of equal value.
Instead of paying out only investment income to current heirs, a total return unitrust pays a fixed percentage of its total value annually.
The people in the company become part of a team which has to turn the acquisition into a high value return on invested capital for IBM.
Heidi Sinclair, chair of the global technology practice at Burson-Marsteller, a consulting firm that carried out the research, said the study showed that companies which had a CIO on their board of directors were also the companies that had a higher return on shareholder value.
This note has a term of six years, is principal-protected, and the return is linked to the value of a global index basket made up of the Dow, the Nikkei, and the Euro Stoxx 50.
There must also be a statement as to the value of anything you received in return or a statement that there was not anything given to you in return.
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But others see potential for market participants to return to gold as a store of value, particularly if traders see more worrisome headlines about sovereign debt around the world.
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"But you can certainly find situations where you'd be a fool to drop an existing policy, " Mr. Daily says, especially if it's an older "whole life" policy the kind that builds cash value some of which offer a tax-deferred rate of return on the cash value of over 3%.
State companies were sold off to a few rich bankers at a fraction of their value, in a rigged scheme, in return for their supporting Boris Yeltsin's re-election in 1996.
The fund has a good track record of out-performing its net asset value return in strong market years and fund management has been a consistent buyer of shares (currently holding around a third of all shares outstanding).
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The person who sets up the trust gets annual payments adding up to the asset's original value, plus a return based on a fixed interest rate set by the Internal Revenue Service.
Snowling ticks off other advantages for Sallie: low interest rate risk (given government guarantees), profit growth expectations in the 15% range, a rich return on equity (net income divided by average book value) of 38%, and a cheap valuation relative to history and the broader market.
As a result, the taxpayers had not contributed value in excess of the value they received in return, and were thus barred from claiming a deduction.
Myhrvold says there is a lot of value in people investing in stuff, and being able to realize a return.
Great Clips got a 3-to-1 return in media value over dollars invested, according to Sports Business Journal.
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First, they must carry a pro rata profit actually earned by the fund, instead of a fixed return being tied up with their face value.
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The notion behind the yardsticks is simple: a company creates value only if the return on its capital is greater than the opportunity cost of it, or the rate that investors could earn by investing in other securities with the same risk.
He could make the case that he includes small cap, foreign, and a value tilt, which may push the return higher.
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Instead, you have to move your money first to, say, a stock fund, for 90 days or so. (Cash withdrawals have no waiting periods.) And in the rare case that your employer ends its participation in a stable value fund, your money might be held for up to 12 months (still earning a return) as the fund unwinds.
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Extra cash can earn a predictable and competitive return in dividend-paying, cash value life insurance and other products.
Diamonds, Worstal argued, are mined when the mining process guarantees a high value, long-term, profitable return on the investment made in the mining operation.
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Since 2010, many endowments have recovered their value, and data from 823 institutions show a return of 19% for 2011.
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If you are happy with the earnings growth implied in that fair value calculation, then you can still make a return in the stock, just not excess return.
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Penney has some tough sledding ahead, but that it was the only stock in his portfolio that could return 15 times his investment because it trades at a discount to the value of its real estate and inventory.
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Thus, when you are investing in stocks, a company selling at fair value may still generate plenty of return for you, but those returns will be constrained by earnings growth.
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Second, the delivery method is outdated and the extra hardware, including a special antenna, and design requirements increase production costs for little return in value.
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