Sentences with phrase «guaranteed percentage points»

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He designed the debentures to pay investors a quarterly guaranteed interest rate: five percentage points above prime, capped at 15 %.

There are no guarantees, but both stocks and bonds have shown that they tend to outpace inflation by several percentage points or more over long stretches.

But guarantees cost money, so most seg funds charge annual fees at least a half a percentage point higher than comparable mutual funds.

Even if you're able to pare expenses, there's no guarantee that each percentage point reduction will mean a percentage - point increase in return, although there's plenty of evidence that funds with lower costs do generally perform better.

At Guaranteed Rate, a national lender, the savings are similar: Buying one point will typically lower your rate a quarter, or perhaps three - eighths, of a percentage point, says Dan Gjeldum, senior vice president of mortgage lending.

There's also no guarantee that every percentage point you reduce investment fees will raise your return by the same amount, although Morningstar research on the relationship between fees and performance shows that low - cost funds typically do outperform their high - cost counterparts.

Finally, it's also important to realize there's no guarantee that every percentage point you save in investment fees by replacing a high - cost fund with low - cost one will translate to an extra percentage point of return.

[ii] This slip in the polls is a decline of more than 10 percentage points, and demonstrates the public effect of Solyndra's bankruptcy and the resulting Congressional probe into renewable loan guarantees.

The extra yield investors demand to hold securities backed by government - guaranteed mortgages has risen to 0.24 percentage point this year, from 0.15 percentage point at the end of 2016, a relatively modest widening.