Our analysis is outside those concerns because everything here is
done on a total return basis, which includes dividends.
Not exact matches
A lot of academics have analyzed
total market
returns based on indices and
done Monte Carlo simulations of portfolios with various asset allocations, and have come up with percentages that you can have reasonable statistical confidence of being safe.
Even if we don't see outsized price increases in commodities, from a
total return perspective, commodity
returns will benefit from a change to positive roll yields
based on the reshaping and structuring of the fundamental market in commodities.
Specifically, the SNA is asking to: keep the level of whole grains in the
total number of grain foods served at 25 %; avoid further reductions in sodium; eliminate the requirement that kids take fruit or a vegetable with their meal (
returning to the old system in which kids could — and often
did — pass up those healthful foods); and allow schools to sell
on a daily
basis a la carte items like pizza and fries, as opposed to the current plan which would allow these items to be sold only
on the same day they appeared
on the main lunch line.
Too often, our assessments are
returned to learners with any number of markings
on them (
total number wrong, percent correct, grades, rubric scores or scale score, standard
based achievement levels, stickers or stamps, etc.) that
do not help the learner understand exactly what went wrong.
To put that in other words, what they show is how well each fund
did compared to the rest in their class,
on the
basis of their
total returns after discounting sales charges, loads and redemption fees, and including a «penalty» if the fund experienced larger price fluctuations, in average, than its alternatives (or a plus if it suffered smaller ones).
«You're saying you will take the cash now and give up some upside but in the fullness of time,
on a
total -
return basis, I don't see how that works in your favour.
‡ Lipper is an industry research firm whose rankings are
based on total return performance, vary over time, and
do not reflect the effects of sales charges.
We argue that when writing covered calls against the 20 underlying positions in the portfolio
on a monthly
basis to generate additional income, that
doing this in a WRAP account can be very advantageous and offer a competitive
total return based on the amount of risk that is being taken.
The fine print stated the following: Rankings are
based on total return and
do not include the effects of sales charges The rankings were
based on the funds» Class Z shares.
But don't index funds outperform the majority of managed funds
on a
total return basis (especially since their overall costs are much lower)?
Truth, what you are
doing could be measured
on a
total return basis, but it wouldn't make a lot of difference.
Net purchases are your
total purchases minus the following: credits to your account,
returns, fraudulent charges, and other types of transactions that
do not count toward the net amount
on a billing cycle
basis.