Sentences with phrase «reliable guides to the future»

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.

Personally, I find history a more reliable guide to the future, rather than greedy fantasy.

I think Judith left the Senate in no doubt that the IPCC sponsored models were unable to simulate the present hiatus in global temperature and are therefore not a reliable guide to future climate.

Companies using historical records as a basis for calculating insurance rates for future storm damage are realizing that the past is no longer a reliable guide to the future.

Not exact matches

As Graham and Dodd wrote in Security Analysis (1934), referring to the final advance that led to the 1929 market peak, the reason investors shifted their attention away from historically - reliable measures of valuation was «first, that the records of the past were proving an undependable guide to investment; and, second, that the rewards offered by the future had become irresistibly alluring.»

Our Russian brides can become loving mothers and faithful friends, interesting companions to talk to and reliable guides through your future life.

The letter says that the grades obtained provide a better guide to future performance of students as Cambridge undergraduates than other methods of selection, such as GCSE results — which are «nowhere near as reliable» - or aptitude tests.

These results will be used in future work to develop an assessment tool to identify the socialization status of cats as a standardized guide for transparent and reliable disposition decisions and higher live release rates for cats in animal shelters.

The reliable detection and attribution of changes in climate, and their effects, is fundamental to our understanding of the scientific basis of climate change... This paper... is intended as a guide for future IPCC Lead Authors.

Finding: The past several decades of historical regional climate patterns commonly used by transportation planners to guide their operations and investments may no longer be a reliable guide for future plans.