Sentences with phrase «returns over the past century»

In short, the risks of owning equities have paid substantial excess returns over the past century.

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Dividends, the share of their revenues that companies pay to their shareholders, are a big deal: Over the past century, they've accounted for roughly half of total returns earned by stock investors.

The chief reason the OMP has no foreign diversification is that long - run returns on Canadian stocks are better than the global average, and nearly as good as returns on U.S. stocks (best performing country over the past two centuries).

When I said that the cult of equity was dying, what I meant was that those investors and those liabilities structures such as pension funds and insurance companies that have depended on a 6.5 % constant real return from stocks such as we've have had over the past century are bound to be disappointed.

In this segment of the «Look Back» series, we consider inflation and the subsequent real rates of return of holding cash (defined as holding Treasury bills or T - bills) over the past century.

If one excludes the 1980 - 1997 period, the historical correlation between 10 - year Treasury yields and 10 - year prospective (and actual realized) equity returns is actually slightly negative over the past century, and is only weakly positive in post-war data.

Over the past half century, U.S. and Canadian stocks have provided returns of about 10 % a year, while Canadian bonds have generated returns around 8 % a year.

Over the past half century, inflation has cut the purchasing power of your return by 3.5 percentage points a year.

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What are the average returns for a global stock market index (by definition the most «neutral» stock index) over the past century?

Of the 9.6 percent nominal total return earned by stocks over the past century, fully 9.5 percent has been contributed by investment return - 4.5 percent by dividend yields and 5 percent from earnings growth.

Returns over the past quarter century have been poor, while returns prior to that were seemingly Returns over the past quarter century have been poor, while returns prior to that were seemingly returns prior to that were seemingly decent.

After building a database of nearly 200 years of US stock and bond returns, Siegel discovered that over the past two centuries US stocks have delivered a surprisingly consistent real return (net of inflation).

«Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past... Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.»