The phrase
"meager returns" refers to a very small or insignificant amount of profit, benefit, or outcome that is not satisfactory or worthwhile.
Full definition
Meager returns on offer have pushed investors into riskier assets in search of decent yield.
Q: How can I identify the customers I should shed — the ones who suck up my time and energy in exchange
for meager returns?
That means they're safe — but it also means they generally earn
fairly meager returns, and aren't growing fast enough with the program's increasing expenses.
The trade
yielded meager return for an All - Star starter, even more so after the Bulls included their No. 16 pick to sweeten the deal.
New York's advertising campaigns promoting the state's economic - development opportunities have faced criticism for their high costs and
meager returns in job creation.
If you have nothing but long shots in your portfolio, you are likely to
make meager returns or lose money over long periods, rather than making the high returns you seek.
In bull markets when returns are high these ratios are not as noticeable for investors; however, when bear markets come around, the higher expense ratios become more conspicuous as they are directly deducted
from meager returns.
That might look like a
rather meager return, but it actually is a 26 % average annualized rate of return since the transaction only took 39 days.
Instruments related to fixed incomes provide single
digit meager returns and that too after tax reductions.
In Canada, at least, even if you manage the princely return of 1 % a year, if you're in the top marginal tax rate, you can kiss goodbye to almost half
that meager return.
Contrast
this meager return with what the beneficiary would have earned had the same amount been deposited over the decades in a 6 % savings account, or in mutual funds paying a long - term average of 12 %!
Surrendering the policy is not advisable, as it provides you only
the meager returns.
Meager returns should be expected throughout 2018, likely far outpacing «normal» financial markets.
Instead of sending out massive standard mailings, posting information that gets little or no response or spending too much money on lead generation platforms that show
a meager return on the investment, intentional connection is the communication transformation you need.
My money is worth far more than
the meager returns it would earn buried in a rental property but to each their own.