Sentences with phrase «even returns better»

Not exact matches

When I returned this year, one of those professors remembered me well, even though we had not communicated for the two decades since I graduated.

In nearly every case, however, we have found it to be more successful and deliver a significantly better return on your SEM investment by focusing on the hundreds or even thousands of more specific keywords that more closely match the services, products, brands, and locations that you sell or serve.

By best practices, I mean things that add value to the company by increasing the likelihood that any future owner will be able to earn the maximum return — even if the future owner is you.

Return to it on a regular basis, and see what you can do to make it even better and more useful to your audience.

If gold companies continue to reinvent themselves, though, investors could see even better returns on stock than on bullion.

While return on investment might be the end - goal of social media presence, focusing on ROI in monetary terms isn't a good strategy, particularly in the short - term, even for smaller brands.

Even if hitting the slopes isn't your cup of hot cocoa, clicking into a set of skis is well worth it when it means you can return to a cozy chalet after a day spent traipsing down the mountain.

It's entirely coherent for us to think that returning the money would be a good thing to do, even if we don't think he's obligated to do so.

Market strategists and portfolio managers maintain that folks should look past those lofty valuations and focus on what counts: A powerful, steady forward march in profits that should deliver near double - digit returns, or even better, for years to come.

If investors really had a good shot at achieving, say, even 8 % returns, the math would look radically different.

«As a long - term value investor, we remain cautious and recognise that to generate good real returns over time, we have to be prepared for periods of underperformance relative to the market indices, some even for a stretch of several years.»

For the past several years, the fund has produced double - digit returns, a far better performance than any savings account, which is why you need to allocate even limited financial resources across different savings and investment vehicles.

In return for funding, donors receive goods or services, or even just a well - crafted thank - you, in lieu of equity or interest payments.

While Bond King Bill Gross, founder of world's largest bond fund PIMCO, is going deep into California and New York munis, claiming the returns are still the best in the market despite the headline risk, even the discussion of bankruptcy as a bargaining chip has caused some to fear bond market hysteria.

«In a scenario in which corporate prices returned to the same levels as four years ago, corporate revenues could grow 15 percent, driving a strong fundamental backdrop for the industry and an even better outlook,» added Didora.

And, even if your broker does have your best interests at heart, wouldn't it be nice to save a couple of bucks on those fees and sales charges that chip away at your returns?

The children that were able to wait until the experimenter returned experienced better outcomes in life, including higher SAT scores, greater career success, and even lower body mass indexes.

These terms will allow the shark to get a good return even if the exit of a start - up is far below the valuation of the company.

The top one percentile, meaning those that generate better returns than 99 % of their peers, generate outstanding returns of 70 %, and even 90 % in some cases.

While you may have your rival's photo on your office dartboard, offering the olive branch of peace by quoting a competitor or mentioning their work in your field may well lead to them sharing the article with their contacts and client base, and they might even return the favor in the future.

If its fourth quarter performance can continue into the future, then it's likely those returns will get even better.

Given sales figures, return rates and constant commentary via social media — all arriving in a «firehose of feedback» — the best entrepreneurs harness this information to hone their messaging, improve their products and even create new ones.

Even if you were to put the broader issues aside, the best way to calculate DuPont's return over time would not be the way Trian has done it.

After heading to Asia for year - end client meetings, Levkovich wrote: «A 10 % total return in the next 13 - 14 months was perceived as being too conservative by many even as our year - end target is in line with mean and median top - down forecasts... Interestingly, several clients suggested that our outlook was far below the bullishness expressed by other even when our numbers are pretty much well within the Street's consensus.»

Efficient diversification will not be enough to earn good returns; even very well established track records will provide a less reliable guide to future performance; and bond managers will probably have to stray far from their comfort zone to deliver even modestly positive real returns.

For better or worse, we're still in a world in which market returns are heavily influenced by what central banks are doing, saying and even thinking.

While this has been good news, even amid the positive returns it is worth taking a look at one of the unintended consequences of a market rally — the rise in stock prices may have added unintended risk to your portfolio.

In actuality, while the skill set necessary to make intelligent decisions can take years to acquire, the core matter is straightforward: Buy ownership of good businesses (stocks) or loan money to good credits (bonds), paying a price sufficient to reasonably assure you of a satisfactory return even if things don't work out particularly well (a margin of safety), and then give yourself a long enough stretch of time (at an absolute minimum, five years) to ride out the volatility.

So while there could be one or even five year periods where longer maturity bonds perform fairly well from these yield levels, over the long - term they're likely to be a poor investment in terms of earning a decent return over the rate of inflation.

For example, a portfolio that starts out strong in retirement and has losses later will likely be in much better shape than one that has down years early, even if strong performance in later years brings its average return back in line with historical averages.

Powerful integrations with virtually any ERP, accounting or other line of business application gives you an even better return on investment.

There are alternatives that can protect investors from future inflation that are less volatile (TIPS) or offer a better return profile (REITs and even high quality dividend stocks) than commodities.

We find that in market cycles across history, this new measure is better correlated (92 %) with actual subsequent S&P 500 nominal total returns than even the S&P 500 price / revenue ratio and market capitalization / nominal GDP.

If you were a taxable investor, the muni market return may have been even better after factoring in the potentially favorable treatment on income.

Even better, aligning executive compensation with return on invested capital earns the stock a spot on July's Linking Exec Comp to ROIC Model Portfolio.

The delegation returned to their hotel late on Thursday evening without taking questions from reporters, though, when asked how the talks were going, one unidentified U.S. official said «Well.»

Missing out on investment returns — even the semi-conservative 6 % annual return used in NerdWallet's analysis — for that portion of their portfolio could cost more than $ 300,000 (22 % of the retirement savings they could have built with a better investment mix).

It seems to me that it would be, well, inconceivable for such an investor to even approach the returns earned by an index fund.

Even several years of good returns won't stem the decline and eventually it can vanish.

Indeed, even Robert Shiller's cyclically - adjusted P / E (CAPE) is much better correlated with actual subsequent market returns, across a century of market cycles, when we account for the profit margin embedded in the 10 - year average of earnings.

The best option for return on investment will vary from marketer to marketer and even from product to product within a company.

Even VC's think this way, which is why Fred Wilson when describing his decision to syndicate a portion of his invesment in GeoCities to another investor says, «I learned that good partners are worth every penny of returns you give up to get them.»

In fact, being a more expensive option can even work in your favor if you're going to get them the best return on investment.

Longer - term metrics, such as cyclically adjusted price - to - earnings, or CAPE, ratios, are even more troubling, suggesting that U.S. stocks are likely to produce, at best, average to below - average returns over the next five years.

We were a little conservative with the 7 % and are now even more conservative with 4 % since that includes the rental property returns as well.

Even if we hit a market set back in the near term, we should still end up with good returns on investment over the next 5 - 10 years.

Some investors argue that massive share - price increases in 2014 mean that even future successes won't produce strong returns for shareholders buying in at today's prices, but the demand among top pharmaceutical companies for promising drug candidates to add to their pipelines shows few signs of slowing anytime soon, and that could bode well for the sector in the coming year.

And if you can buy some business that earns high returns on equity and has even got mild growth prospects, you know, at much lower multiple earnings, you are going to do better than buying ten - year bonds at 2.30 or 30 - year bonds at three, or something of the sort.»

Even better is to just think of MERs as subtracting off your rate of return and giving you a lower effective rate of return.

International markets did even better, with returns for U.S. - based investors benefiting from a decline in the dollar (which logged its worst month in nearly a year).