Just because you don't shoot for double - digit returns doesn't make you a bad person; it just makes you the investor that you really are when you put your money on the line.
✓ Guaranteed double - digit returns don't exist so you're better off paying off your credit card balance
Not exact matches
With overall
returns projected to range in the mid-single
digits — that includes dividends — and guaranteed savings vehicles paying literally nothing, they will need to
do more of the heavy lifting to meet their retirement goals.
The crisis may also mark an end to the notion that «investing» means guaranteed annual double -
digit returns (far in excess of income growth) without having to
do any real work.
In the 1980s and 1990s, when stocks and bonds alike racked up double -
digit average
returns, the markets
did most of the work.
However, despite the outlook for low single -
digit equity
returns in 2016, «we
do feel more optimistic about a number of cohorts and securities,» says Parker.
So once we roll that out, just automatically without much happening, if earnings just keep growing a little bit, the S&P's not gonna
do double
digit returns, it just
does single
digit returns.
Nominal equity
returns in high single
digits don't get it
done when your cost of capital is in the teens, but even more revealing is looking at the zombie banks in terms of risk - adjusted
return on capital or RAROC.
These books don't earn out their advances, don't have second printings, they sell in the low four
digits at best, are
returned from the retail accounts and pulped or recycled.
Did you know double
digit annual
return on investment (ROI) is possible in real estate in cashflow alone?
They want those high double -
digit returns, but they don't want to pay too much to get it.
Don't assume your portfolio will generate double -
digit returns.
As a non-institutional investor who doesn't care as much about the «mark to model» on any bonds I would hold, I would view double -
digit Treasuries as free money, especially in light of long - term
returns on stocks barely cracking the DD with divvies included...
Great insights Nial.Glad to read your articles, i started to change myself as a trader.I trade mostly demo, because of learning, but simply
done any of the mistakes you mentioned as a novice trader.I got enormous
returns, just to cripple back
returns to simple
digit positive
returns (i got two
digit returns in the lower tenth), just two days after starting, and today is my day of revelation, after getting a huge setback and just one
digit positive
return, reading your articles was a miracle.You really englightened me with your knowledge.
But even double -
digit investment
returns won't
do much good if you're not putting money aside on a regular basis.
Your mutual fund adviser may brag about his ability to attain whopping double -
digit returns, but don't bet your retirement savings on it.
This 2 or 3 % dividend distribution doesn't look incredibly awesome to an investor looking for a double
digit return.
However, if you add that into the near - term 10 % compound annual growth for the company's EPS that is expected by at least one professional analysis firm, you've got a case for double -
digit total
return very quickly (assuming the valuation doesn't compress).
With overall
returns projected to range in the mid-single
digits — that includes dividends — and guaranteed savings vehicles paying literally nothing, they will need to
do more of the heavy lifting to meet their retirement goals.
Moreover, long - term debt / gilt funds were
doing extremely well before & after demonetization and giving
returns in double
digits.
When interest rates are hovering around 2 - 3 %, don't expect double -
digit returns.
Does this mean that the expectation for equity
returns in the U.S. for the foreseeable future is at best in the low single
digit range?
In the Cabot Small - Cap Confidential advisory, Tyler
does all the heavy lifting for you, identifying those hard - to - find small caps that can earn you the kind of triple -
digit returns that can transform your portfolio.
As you might already surmise I
do not take the position that one can EXPECT double
digit returns over time from a diversified public equity portfolio.
In a year when bonds have fallen sharply and stocks have delivered double -
digit returns, which
do you think your lizard brain will tell you to buy?
But,
do not invest in Arbitrage funds with an objective to get double
digit returns.
Not only has your portfolio enjoyed double -
digit returns since 2012, but it's
done so with little volatility.
Certainly my Dad allowed me to
do this all the time when we played Chess and I was of single -
digit age =)(I'm yet again sorry I have not
returned to Vertex Dispenser but I
did have a play with a number of your very weird aborted projects you made available recently.)
How
do you like the idea of making double
digit returns while not needing to lift a finger with your investments?
The opportunity
does offer some solid, double -
digit returns on real estate crowdfunding and instant diversification in an asset class that is notoriously difficult to diversify.