Sentences with phrase «returns as an alternative investment»

We continue to see student housing as one of the best risk - adjusted returns as an alternative investment, especially when compared to the four major food groups of commercial real estate.

Not exact matches

For participants in the IBM Stock Fund investment alternative under the IBM 401 (k) Plus Plan: In order to have the Trustee vote your shares as you direct, you must timely furnish your voting instructions over the Internet or by telephone by 12:01 a.m. EDT on April 25, 2016, or otherwise ensure that your card is signed, returned and received by such time and date.

Our style of investment is referred to as impact investing, which J.P. Morgan Global Research and Rockefeller Foundation in a 2010 report called «an emerging alternative asset class» and defined as investing with the intent to create positive impact beyond financial return.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

As a result, investors (particularly those that are institutional in nature) are seeking alternative asset classes to boost investment returns.

In fact, despite the added risks and work they entail, many see alternative investments as the perfect antidote to the anemic returns forecast for the broad - based equity and bond markets.

Some investors still think of alternative investments as an exclusive, narrowly defined class of investments, but Alternatives come in a variety of packages, and can be a powerful tool that help investors achieve greater diversification, dampen volatility and boost returns.

On the other hand, as with other alternative investments, the hope is that with high risk may come the reward of high return.

«The choice of rebalancing as an investment discipline as compared with an alternative such as buy - and - hold is simply a risk - return trade - off — though one that is a little more subtle than most.

The idea behind asset allocation is that because not all investments are alike, you can balance risk and return in your portfolio by spreading your investment dollars among different types of assets, such as stocks, bonds, and cash alternatives.

As you increase risk with things like bond funds, stocks and alternative investments your rate of return will go up.

With whole life insurance, the guaranteed annual rate of return is lower than you might get with alternative investments, but you may want your child to have a death benefit as well.

Using a venerable actuarial tool called the Linton Yield Method, these returns are derived by comparing the cash value policy to the alternative of buying lower premium term life insurance and investing the premium savings in a hypothetical alternative investment, such as a bank account or a mutual fund.

Because of both the low correlation and absolute returns, hedge funds are often seen as an alternative to fixed income (bonds) investments.

As the firms explain, the Endowment Collective Investment Fund (CIF) seeks to improve risk - adjusted returns of traditional portfolios of stocks and bonds by adding alternative investments.

Not so amazingly, as alternative investments go mainstream, the returns fall and become more correlated.

Alternative investments are speculative, subject to high return volatility and involve a high degree of risk including, but not limited to, the risks associated with leverage, derivative instruments such as options and futures, distressed securities, may be illiquid on a long term basis and short sales.

In comparison to the alternatives, many industry experts argue that whole life policies are not the best investment as the return on investment is very low.

The evolutionary investment market is also complicated further by the relationship between developed and emerging economies, as the latter continue to develop and offer alternative options for individuals with disposable income who are in search of a viable return.

The results below show the rate of return you would have to receive from a taxable investment to have the same after - tax income as you would from a tax - exempt alternative, such as a municipal bond.

As discussed in my book The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You'll Ever Need, the conclusion of the academic research on TIPS is that you should strongly prefer real return bonds over nominal return bonds.

«This survey was conducted immediately prior to a 10 % drop in equities prices and a spike in market volatility, so it's prescient that many institutional allocators were already planning significant allocations to alternative investment strategies, which offer investors the potential for downside protection as well as asymmetric returns that are uncorrelated to traditional market risks,» Ron Biscardi, Context's co-founder and chief executive, said in a statement.

In recent years, Canada's long - running low interest rate environment has bolstered the popularity of real estate investing as people search for alternative investments that promise greater returns than they might otherwise be able to achieve through conventional investments like stocks and bonds.

It assumes that there is an alternative to Keystone available to the interested parties just «waiting in the wings» that is just as good as (if not better) than Keystone in all regards (price of product transport, refining capability and port availability at the endpoint, long term reliability, return on capital investment, etc)

As compared to the other investment alternatives the life insurance policies yield better return and the money invested in the scheme is safe and covers risk.

Using a venerable actuarial tool called the Linton Yield Method, these returns are derived by comparing the cash value policy to the alternative of buying lower premium term life insurance and investing the premium savings in a hypothetical alternative investment, such as a bank account or a mutual fund.

What you're left with is an insurance product that's more expensive than alternatives and an investment product that won't give you as good of returns as alternatives (namely, just investing the money through a robo - advisor platform).

With whole life insurance, the guaranteed annual rate of return is lower than you might get with alternative investments, but you may want your child to have a death benefit as well.

«Most investors believe that even lower rates of return on real estate stack up very well against alternatives in the broader capital market such as stocks, bonds and offshore investments,» Hauser says.

Just to briefly mention them here, these factors include property market influences, relating to the strength and prospects of the local market, such as rent movements, vacancy rate, absorption rate, etc. and capital market influences including movements in interest rates, returns in alternative investment vehicles and overall uncertainty and volatility in financial markets.

- Capitalization - rate declines can be triggered by strengthening local market conditions, which improve investor risk perceptions and appreciation expectations, as well as by decreases in interest rates and returns in alternative investment vehicles, such as stocks and bonds.

iGlobal Forum's Inaugural Alternative Investments Summit will explore the opportunities that exist for institutional investors in private equity, hedge funds, managed futures, real estate, and infrastructure funds as they prepare to realize returns in the new economic paradigm and changing asset structures.

As indicated earlier, property investors choose the appropriate rate for discounting property cash flows, based on their required rate of return, which is strongly influenced by two sets of factors: a) achievable returns in alternative investment vehicles and b) risk factors.

Not only are those returns nearly triple the 5 % returns tax credits were generating back in 2007, but they also are well above the returns in alternative investments such as corporate bonds.