Not exact matches
But clever specialty films do
not often
deliver the box - office
returns necessary to justify their
high marketing costs.
While a fund with
higher than average fees isn't necessarily bad, its manager will have to do better than his peers to
deliver a comparable
return on investment.
By secular reflation, we mean at least a decade in which short - and long - term interest rates stay habitually below nominal GDP growth and
high grade bonds are
not really bonds any more:
delivering trend
returns that are close to zero or even negative.
And with interest rates at all - time lows and stocks at all - time
highs, there are many who expect that
not only will a 60/40 portfolio
deliver below average
returns, but that bonds might
not provide the protection they once did.
But riskier investments absolutely can
not be counted on to
deliver higher returns.
The main issue for good, established companies here is
not the risk to the long - term stream of cash flows, but to what extent the uncertainty about the coming year or two of earnings will frighten investors to sell at depressed prices (thereby pricing stocks to
deliver even
higher long - term
returns).
If one of these new platforms were to
deliver the goods and provide consistently
high returns, crypto traders would flock to it, which simply hasn't happened.
ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims,
delivered a speech at the Gilbert + Tobin Regulated Infrastructure Policy Workshop in Melbourne today, calling for a «
return to the approach to regulation of monopoly infrastructure envisaged by the Hilmer Committee» and arguing «it is wrong to suggest that we should
not be concerned about
high monopoly pricing of infrastructure because the result is only a pure transfer of economic rent.»
It validates the concept of a «crowded trade,» one that offered
high returns in the past, may presently offer low
returns to a «buy and hold» investor, but will
deliver negative
returns in the near future, because the holders of the trade are relying on the trade to
deliver positive
returns in the short run, and will bail if it doesn't happen.
They earn their salaries by producing excellent investment results,
not by charging
high fees while
delivering mediocre
returns.
If these ETFs had large tracking errors (for the record, they did
not), their absolute
returns would still have been very
high, but they would have been losers for
not delivering on their mandate.
It's
not the one that would have
delivered the
highest return over the last 12 months, because that is always unknowable in advance and has no bearing on the future.
For example, if stocks with a given characteristic
delivered higher returns in the US but
not in other countries, or only during a specific period, chances are there's no real anomaly.
You can't force the financial markets to
deliver a
higher rate of
return, but you can keep more of whatever
return the market
delivers by sticking to low - cost investing options like broad - based index funds and ETFs.
While the Wall Street Journal didn't declare a formal winner research indicates that the professionals were unable to
deliver higher risk adjusted
returns than the random basket.
Since equity mutual funds
deliver substantially
high returns on a long - term basis, the expense ratio does
not make a big difference.
The younger you are, the more you should usually tilt that mix toward stock funds, as equities generally have a
higher probability of
delivering the lofty
returns you'll need to build an adequate
nest egg.
For example, although there's no magical investment that can
deliver returns high enough to make up for all those years you failed to save, you may very well be able to boost the
return your savings earn — and the eventual size of your
nest egg — by opting for low - cost index funds and ETFs, many of which charge less than 0.25 % a year in annual expenses.
So the key is to arrive at a blend of assets that can
deliver returns high enough to provide adequate income without subjecting you to losses so large that you'll spend down your
nest egg too quickly.
1) While
not shown on this chart, you might notice that the simulated equal weight
return of ~ 12 % is
higher than what the market - cap weighted S&P 500 actually
delivered across the 40 years of this study.
It's reasonable to say that, if the generations alive in the next few decades are willing to give up, say 3 per cent of their income for a project which will
deliver most of its benefits after 2050, those who will benefit from that (modest but
not insignificant) sacrifice ought to be willing to give up a similar proportion of their (almost certainly much
higher) incomes, to
return the environment to something like the starting point, before the process of industrialisation that
delivered all that wealth.