Looking
only at returns (while not considering risk), the Vanguard High Yield Corporate Fund looks like a good investment compared to its benchmarks.
I would argue that you should NEVER look
only at returns to choose which funds to invest in.
The sample was also biased in tha tit looked
only at the returns from a winner.
Not exact matches
However, the self - styled smartest guys in the room still
only managed a
return on equity of 8.7 percent, well below its estimated cost of capital
at around 10 %.
«Financial capital is very mobile and basically is looking
only at rates of
return,» says Chris Ragan, a professor of economics
at McGill University and former adviser
at the Bank of Canada.
Of the sellers who enrolled in Parachutes, Jones and Sherman were the
only ones who didn't
return home when the program ended
at the end of 2010.
«Despite the sell - off, tech is still one of the
only two sectors with positive
returns this year, after leading the market last year with a 38 percent
return,» said Neena Mishra, director of ETF research
at Zacks Investment Research.
There are dozens of good options out there — Ally, Goldman Sachs, and Barclays all offer accounts with no minimum — but you're
only looking
at a 1 % annual
return, or $ 100 on $ 10,000 in savings.
An investor who panicked and
only later re-entered the market would have found that his bank account
at the end of the bet was a lot smaller than a hypothetical account in which he earned the index - fund
returns for the whole period.»
Andreessen Horowitz's first fund is
only at 2.6 x, below the 3x that Marc Andreessen has said top - tier venture capital firm should
return.
According to a 2009 story in The Province, workers
at an Arctic mining exploration site
returned one June after a winter of severe winds to discover the
only things left standing among the debris of what once were permanent wooden structures were Weatherhaven shelters.
Common shares: Of the five categories of blue - chip Canadian equities that I continually monitor,
only one, financials, had a negative total
return this year
at -6.5 %.
If the same person instead invested a little less each year (6 % of his income) in a portfolio weighted 80 % to higher -
returning equities and 20 % to bonds, he would
only have $ 469,000
at retirement.
When Americans look
at Canada, they
only see negative
returns, because we're such a nascent venture industry.
The timing of their
return doesn't seem surprising considering Burger King (bkw)
only recently began selling hot dogs
at its restaurants nationwide.
«The annuity salesperson will usually
only show you the best case scenario of the potential
returns you will receive,» says David G. Niggel, a financial advisor
at KeyWealthPartners.com.
There's quite a bit of research, based on historical
returns, that finds if you retire
at age 65, you can withdraw 4 % a year (plus inflation adjustments) from your nest egg with
only a small risk of outliving your money.
He tried his hand
at farming in Saskatchewan,
only to
return to Toronto when he couldn't make a go of it.
At Aveda, employees not only garden while at work during the week, but even return to campus on weekends — bringing their children and spouses along, to participate in tending to the plot, such is their interest in growing their own food and sharing the experience with their familie
At Aveda, employees not
only garden while
at work during the week, but even return to campus on weekends — bringing their children and spouses along, to participate in tending to the plot, such is their interest in growing their own food and sharing the experience with their familie
at work during the week, but even
return to campus on weekends — bringing their children and spouses along, to participate in tending to the plot, such is their interest in growing their own food and sharing the experience with their families.
My
returns are based on full cash purchase of the properties, as it is hard to compare the attractiveness of properties
at different price ranges when
only calculating down payment or properties that need very little rehab / updates.
Finally, by substituting the historic linear trend above into the IRR term of this equation, and the industry average investment period of 13 years into the c term, we get the following formula, which shows that nominal R&D productivity / ROI currently stands
at about 1.2 (i.e., we get
only 20 % back on top of our original R&D investment after 13 years), is declining exponentially by about 10 % per year, and will hit 1.0 (zero net
return on investment) by 2020:
If you want to lower risk, you can
only do so
at the cost of expected
return.
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.
These examples
only look
at treasury bonds, but there are other types of bonds that are more volatile and can possibly lead to better
returns (or
at the very least more diversified
returns).
Inversely, if the market
returns to normal after month 2, as the example states, and your principle has now already accumulated 10 % of month 3 before investing, you are
only putting in the remaining 90 % of month 3 and thus throw less money
at a more expensive market with the same end result.
So when we caution families to prepare for muted
returns going forward, how can we avoid feeling like the investment reincarnation of the Grinch, peering down the mountain
at all of the strong
returns and seeing
only caution in our outlook?
The laws of competition and competitive strategy are now very much
at work within the private equity industry, and we can see the best funds putting their real endeavors behind that, not
only so they've got a good story to tell
at [the] time of next fundraising, but also to deliver the great
returns that their investors are expecting.
With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures
at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total
returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile
return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in
only about 9 % of history.
At present, the valuation measures we find most strongly correlated with actual subsequent S&P 500 total
returns suggest zero total
returns for the S&P 500 over the coming 10 years, and total
returns averaging
only about 1 % annually over the coming 12 - year period.
Ponzi schemes» promised
returns are
at a level that you can get
only with lots of variability and volatility.
They moved into money market funds
at a time when rates were lower than they had been in nearly half a century,
only to earn anemic
returns while Wall Street ultimately recovered and skyrocketed.
In a polarising referendum called by the radical leftist government of Alexis Tsipras
at only eight days notice, Greeks voted by more than 60 % to 40 % in support of the prime minister, spurning the extra austerity demanded mainly by Germany and the International Monetary Fund in
return for an extension of bailout funds.
Looking
only at the glass as half - empty will leave you on the sidelines while some great opportunities to boost your income and your overall portfolio
returns pass you by.
The Great Western Railway was for decades the most admired railway company in Britain, yet anyone who had bought shares
at its launch in 1835 (
at a fraction of their peak in 1845) and held them until 1913 would have seen an annual
return of
only 5 %.
(
Only in special instances — say, you donated art valued
at $ 20,000 or more — do you need to submit a signed appraisal to the IRS with your
return.)
U.S. auto sales are on pace for the best showing since 2007 and a third straight year of
at least 10 percent gains,
only the fourth such streak since the Great Depression, as more - confident buyers
return to showrooms.
At Morgan Stanley, we call the space «Investing with Impact» and define it as investing with the intention of generating not
only financial
returns but also positive social and / or environmental impact.
See, by entertaining
only accounts with
at least $ 100,000 in assets and assuming
at least a small portion of all customers will eventually employ their Financial Services, they anticipate a
return on that investment.
We look
at equity
returns from several perspectives: Nominal, Real, Price
only, and Price plus dividends.
«You can borrow possibly with
only five percent down
at approximately a four percent interest rate and buy a property that may generate
at least a seven percent rate of
return annually, which greatly magnifies the
return on your equity invested,» says Ailion.
First, a short can
only fall to zero, earning you
at most a 100 %
return even if your insights and timing are perfect.
The long / short strategy based on the joint quality and value signal generated excess
returns of 61 basis points per month, twice that generated by the quality or value signals alone and a third higher than the market, despite running
at a volatility of
only 9.7 %.
They are messages he'd seen
only hours earlier, for the first time, after authorities
returned the phone Alex had had in his pocket when he was killed
at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
S. dollar currency pair, but it is
only receiving a 75 percent rate of
return, it might be more profitable for you to trade the U.S. dollar / Japanese yen pair
at 82 percent.
Historically, public US companies have generated an average
return on invested capital of 10 %, yet have
only been able to reinvest about half of their earnings
at similar rates.
The blue line shows the cumulative
return of the S&P 500 restricted to
only the 10 - week period following the above signals, provided that our measures market internals or credit spreads were also hostile
at the time.
This program is the Binary Option Robot which keeps its traders happy with sustained
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Even though investing in the best decile of a composite of value factors averages out to have excess
returns of almost four percent annualized, when looking
at shorter investment periods it
only works a little better than two out of three years on a one - year basis.
(I believe the big companies I mentioned earlier
only took accredited investors
at the time which is why I went with the smaller company) I've also put a small amount of money in a crowdfunding company called American Home Preservation where you can invest in increments of $ 100 with a preferred 12 %
return to investors.
It turns out that the correlation of the Fed Model with subsequent one - year S&P 500 total
returns is
only 23 % - regardless of whether one looks
at the period since 1948 (which requires imputed forward earnings since 1980), or the period since 1980 itself.