The rate of return on these multibillion-dollar portfolios is nothing to write home about.
The rate of return on American index-linked government securities (also a real return) is roughly 4%.
When averaged, the rate of return on public and private funds would allow the bank to make low interest loans.
In fact, the rate of return you can earn today on high yield bonds (6.61%) is the lowest absolute yield on record.
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In addition to the financial analysis we just went through, the strategy looks at the rate of return an investor can expect.
The rate of return on assets of those firms has been steadily declining and is now one-quarter of what it was in 1965.
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Already some consumer goods and ad agency executives are alluding to the fact that the rate of return on traditional TV is becoming sketchy.
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China's Sinopec's deal to develop the Yadavaran oil field is being delayed because the rate of return Iran offered the Chinese was too low.
Other things equal, the rate of return on equities would rise.
The rate of return on easy access accounts has fallen by an average of 68% over the past two years, according to financial information service Moneyfacts.
The greater the spread between the high-interest debt and the rate of return on investment, the greater the financial advantage for paying off the debt first.
In a Deloitte study of 20, 000 US firms, the rate of return on assets and invested capital declined by 75 percent during the period 1965-2011.
In fact, the 14.6% average return in years of an NFC win is exactly double the rate of return in years when AFC teams take home the championship.
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The fact that there is a lot more variation than usual in the rate of return you can earn investing in different parts of the economy also backs up his case.
According to a 2010 McKinsey report Lions on the move, the rate of return on foreign investment in Africa is higher than in any other developing region.
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Governments are also under tremendous pressure to keep their pension fund rate of return high: the lower the rate of return on investment, the greater the pension obligations become.
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In February last year, with the merger aborted, all change: the private-client and asset-management side had a glowing future, growing faster than the investment bank up to 2003, and with twice the rate of return.
For instance, GDP growth is a result of (in addition to population growth) the income reinvestment rate in the economy multiplied by the rate of return on that reinvestment (or the aggregate ROIC in the economy).
Mr DeVoretz calculates that the rate of return for a doctor who gets an education at a first-rate Canadian university and then goes to work in the United States is around 45% on the direct costs of his or her education.
The rate of return on assets of US firms is one-quarter of what it was in 1965, Life expectancy of firms in the Fortune 500 has declined from over 50 years to 15 years, and is heading toward 5 years, if nothing changes.
Caxton Global Investment returned 0.7% net of fees in 2011, better than the average hedge fund but far from the rate of return Caxton investors have been accustomed to. 2012 has been no kinder to the firm, down -3.4% net of fees through July 2012.
Broadly, instead of using simple supply and demand, it explains changes in the demand for one asset (a small silver coin, say) relative to another (a large coin) in terms of changes in the rate of return that the holder of the assets can expect from each.
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They knew enough to understand how hard they could push without breaking things (the rate of return they demanded would soon ossify into a ritualized expectation of stable growth rates, a big enabler of the rise of a middle class that could basically withdraw from the risk frontier).
Historians will marvel at the extraordinary escalation in executive pay from 24 times worker pay in 1965 to 275 times worker pay in 2007, at a time when the rate of return on assets of US companies declined by 75% and the life expectancy of a firm in the Fortune declined from 75 years to less than 15 years.
With these managed portfolios, the participants understand the expected rate of return and the range of returns.
Whether the long-term deficit is closed ultimately by raising taxes or cutting benefits, that will mean the effective rate of return from the program will be lower, ultimately falling into the negative range for everyone.
Whether the long term deficit is closed ultimately by raising taxes or cutting benefits, that will mean the effective rate of return from the program will be lower, ultimately falling into the negative range for everyone.
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In June of 2012, Calpers lowered the expected rate of return on its portfolio to 7.5% from 7.75%.
The high fees associated with the variable annuity reduce the net rate of return received by participants in the Plan, but also enable Nationwide to pay NACo the endorsement fee.
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