Not exact matches
The stock has been extremely active
of late, falling more than 14 % in after - hours trading on Nov. 8 after it revealed a much steeper - than -
expected third - quarter loss
of 14
cents a share and cautioned there was a «strong likelihood that the redesign
of our application will be disruptive to our business in the short term» after founder and CEO Evan Spiegel told
investors the Snapchat messaging app was too difficult for new user to understand.
The veteran retailer is
expected to emerge with between 3 and 4 per
cent of Funtastic, if, as
expected, retail
investors fail to come to the party.
It came as Caltex posted a 21 per
cent increase in benchmark profit for the first half to $ 307 million and reassured
investors that it is well on the way to replacing an
expected $ 150 million hit to earnings from the looming loss
of a large supply contract with Woolworths.
An initial gearing level
of between 25 and 45 per
cent has been disclosed with
investors told they can
expect to enjoy a pre-tax distribution yield
of 10 per
cent a year.
WestJet chief financial officer Vito Culmone later told the
investor conference that the airline
expects the new fee could reduce checked bags by 20 to 30 per
cent, based on experience
of other airlines.
«Yet, interestingly, 40 per
cent of Canadian
investors still
expect interest rates to rise, highlighting the ongoing uncertainty around the interest rate outlook.»
Obviously, it will have to be 20 per
cent (ignoring fees) and so there is no way that a comparison between the average return earned by the active managers with the index return will make
investors aware that markets have become efficient.1 In other words, the warning light to signal that markets have become inefficient will never light up and so there is no reason to
expect that
investors will come to a realisation that the flow
of investment funds to index investing has gone too far — meaning that the envisaged constraint on the flow
of funds to index investing is unlikely to eventuate.»
Addressing bond returns, assuming a mix
of one - third Treasuries and two - thirds corporate bonds, Bogle says
investors could
expect a fundamental return «near today's yield
of around 3 per
cent.»
However, if the inflation rate can be
expected to be 2 per
cent per year, the after - tax income just compensates the
investor with sufficient income to cover the loss in the purchasing power
of savings.
Looking at the infrastruc - ture market broadly, McKinsey has forecast that US$ 57 trillion
of global infrastructure in - vestment is needed by 2030 [1] whilst Preqin re - ported that 88 per
cent of institutional
investors expected to commit the same amount or more to infrastructure in 2017 [2].
-- Three - quarters
of investors surveyed
expect values to increase by less than five per
cent over the next 12 months, yet more than half still
expect to grow their overall property holdings over the same time frame.
The report says corporate executives and entrepreneurs are
expected to be the most active
investors, representing 25 per
cent and 19 per
cent of respondents respectively.
They put down higher down payments (45 per
cent of investors paid 20 per
cent or more, compared to 31 per
cent of owners), were less likely to have a mortgage, less likely to
expect their unit to rise in value, and kept their condos for shorter periods
of time (23 per
cent of investors said they planned to keep their condo for 10 years or more, compared to nearly half
of owners who lived in their unit.)