When you take a hard look at efficiency, you can see that it's never a good source of higher returns.

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That additional source of return, shares trading back to fair value, cushions your returns in case your estimate of the earnings growth of the business has been overestimated.

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Just as central banks in China, India, Russia and many other nations view gold as a monetary reserve protection against the falling dollar, major academic institutions are looking for new asset classes like precious metals and commodities to produce returns that can be put to work as a source of funds for a large portion of college operating expenses.

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So management fees have become an important source of profits for VC firms, especially those that have posted weak and negative returns to their investors in the post-2000 years.

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With 3DI, an industrial designer looking to source components can upload a 3D design into the 3D search engine which immediately returns a list of matching suppliers worldwide.

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Reid's unsubstantiated claim, based on an unidentified source, was intended to keep alive the push by Democrats to force Romney to release more of his past tax returns than the two years disclosed so far -- his 2010 filing and an estimate for 2011.

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