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Desjardins senior economist Hendrix Vachon has forecast that the loonie will return to 98 cents by the end of the year.

This was ahead of analysts» expectations for 26 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S, but down from $ 1.09 per share a year ago, when a buoyant stock market boosted investment returns.

Personal income tax will hit a 20 - year high of 12.5 per cent of GDP by 2020 - 21 under the budget forecasts as the government relies on bracket creep and an increase in the Medicare levy to return the budget to surplus.

Aside borrowers, investors benefit from regular monthly returns at an average rate of 15.5 per cent, which is significantly higher than other asset classes.

Net earnings increased to $ 209 million from $ 3 million, and the market value of the company's shares increased from $ 61 million to $ 2.6 billion, for a compounded annual return of 16.4 per cent.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

Eighty - five per cent of its business comes from return clients, CEOs and boards who wouldn't continue to pay its fees if they weren't getting something out of the deal.

The share price of Perth industrial parts and services provider Coventry Group has risen 14 per cent following the announcement of a $ 21 million return to shareholder

The OSC warning comes after a Texas regulator issued a cease and desist order against BitConnect in January, claiming BitConnect said it would deliver annualized returns of 100 per cent or more by issuing BitConnect Coins.

«This encouraging start to the year shows that we are firmly on the path laid out in February that will take us above an eight per cent return on equity in the medium term,» said chief executive of the company Bill Winters.

TORONTO — The 2013 - 14 financial year was an unusually strong one for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which earned a 16.5 per cent annual return on the billions of dollars in assets it manages for the national retirement system, but its CEO cautions that level of growth likely won't soon be repeated.

Executives said the return of the Obamacare health insurance tax next year will pose a 75 - cent - per - share headwind to profits.

When you exchange points for cash or as a statement credit, generally the best return you can get is one cent for each point applied towards the price of the ticket when you booked it.

In the year to September 30 2016, Seedrs investors received an annualized rate of return of 14.44 per cent.

These businesses delivered an average internal rate of return of 14.4 per cent, if priced at «fair value» at that date.

Economists predict inflation will move well above the Bank of Canada's 2 - per - cent target in the coming months, while growth should also return to an above 2 - per - cent pace after a recent slump.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

While we used to think of new mines as projects that required WTI prices near $ 100 per barrel to be viable, we can see 10 per cent rates of return on investment at WTI prices below $ US65 per barrel for a new build.

For a mine project like Suncor's Fort Hills, with about 25 per cent of construction already completed, the forward - looking decision would imply a return on the balance of capital invested of 12.5 per cent — now, the project returns overall might be lower than that, but when you're considering a decision to abandon a partially built mine, you're not likely to get much of a return on they money you've already invested in it if you don't continue building.

Because of this extra capacity, the inflation spike this year — largely the result of an inflation soft patch a year ago — will be temporary, eventually returning to the 2 - per - cent target, according to the central bank's assumptions.

If everything stayed as it is today... it would probably be around a 15 - year full payback, and then over the life of the panels, you'd expect to make a four or five per cent return on your investment.

Shorten told Nine last week that PHIs «are making 25 per cent profits» — which is just wrong (though why would we expect a former director of AustralianSuper with fiduciary duties over the nation's largest retirement fund to know the difference between a profit margin and a return on equity?)

And because the TSX has come to be dominated by two sectors in particular — financial services and resources account for close to 60 per cent of the index's $ 1.9 - trillion market capitalization — any strife facing companies in those sectors has an outsized effect on overall returns.

It had a total return of 9.7 per cent for 2017, up from 4...

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 per cent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

A year ago, Canadian equities posted strong returns of 6.7 per cent while the TSX Composite Index posted a return of 5.5 per cent.

Canadian equity returns reverted to positive territory with returns of 3.8 per cent in Q3 2017, compared with -1.9 in Q2 2017.

The critical issue in determining the extent of the tightening was whether inflation was forecast to return to the 2 to 3 per cent range within the policy horizon (around 18 months).

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

Total inflation has been close to 2 per cent and is expected to dip to about 1.7 per cent in the middle of the year before returning to near its target.

Positive global economic conditions in Q1 2017 helped lift global equities in delivering a return of 6.2 per cent, up from 3.0 per cent in Q4 2016.

With an end - date in sight, the wealthy can take advantage of various means to defer their income until the top tax rate returns to 14.7 per cent, thereby undermining the ability of the new tax to raise as much revenues as it should.

Both our five and 10 year total returns to shareholders have averaged in excess of 20 per cent per year, ahead of virtually every major bank in the world.

TORONTO, May 15, 2017 - Building on a strong 2016 annual return of 6.8 per cent, Canadian defined benefit pension plans upheld the positive growth trend with Q1 2017 returns of 2.9 per cent, according to the $ 650 billion RBC Investor & Treasury Services All Plan Universe, the industry's most comprehensive universe of Canadian pension plans.

Gaurav Mendiratta, founder and CEO, SocioSquare, said, «Everyone is facing common problems of return on investment (ROI) from social ads, as well as their content reaching to only a few per cent of their followers / fans.

Canadian fixed income assets rebounded in Q1 2017, posting a return of 1.4 per cent, compared to a Q4 2016 loss of -3.4 per cent.

The Bank anticipates that the economy will return to full capacity and inflation to 2 per cent on a sustained basis in the first half of 2017.

I have had some business leaders tell me that they have been surprised to see, for example, companies in Asia pursuing investments with implicit returns of around 3 to 4 per cent, well below most companies» hurdle rates.

We have had a successful year on the investing market, so if an individual makes contributions to their TFSA and has a portfolio with a higher return of 20 per cent or 25 per cent, it makes sense to keep that because the advantage is no tax being paid in the TFSA.

2017.05.15 Canadian pension returns post four consecutive quarters of gains: RBC Investor & Treasury Services Building on a strong 2016 annual return of 6.8 per cent, Canadian defined benefit pension plans upheld the positive growth trend with Q1 2017 returns of 2.9 per cent...

Economic growth in Canada is expected to average 2.1 per cent in 2015 and 2.4 per cent in 2016, with a return to full capacity around the end of 2016.

In our most recent Monetary Policy Report, in July, we said that our current policy rate setting of 0.5 per cent was consistent with the economy returning to full capacity toward the end of 2017 and inflation returning sustainably to its target.

Building on a strong 2016 annual return of 6.8 per cent, Canadian defined benefit pension plans upheld the positive growth trend with Q1 2017 returns of 2.9 per cent...

In a statement after the end of the two - day policy meeting, the central bank said, «The stance of monetary policy remains accommodative, thereby supporting strong labour market conditions and a sustained return to 2 per cent inflation.»

Those outflows showed up in returns data, with a Bloomberg Barclay's Index of U.S. corporate bonds posting a 2.3 per cent loss for the first three months of the year.

Historically, accepting market risk in the 8 % of history matching the present market return / risk classification has turned a dollar into about 7 cents over time.

Youbit has already halted all deposits and withdrawals and plans to return clients holdings at the rate of 75 cents on the Dollar.

Over the past couple of years, speculators have also used short sales of gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other assets — for example, by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate of return available on US assets.

Whereas in most markets an increase in short - selling puts pressure on the lending market and pushes up the interest rate at which short - sellers can borrow the underlying stock, the ready supply of gold loans from central banks seeking to earn some return on their gold holdings has, until recently, helped to keep lease rates low, generally in the range of 1 — 2 per cent (Graph B3).

Regardless of Brenner's trumpeting of recent total shareholder returns, AMP has been, and remains, a perennial laggard, trading at an 8 per cent discount to the market multiple versus its historical 8 per cent premium.