Sentences with phrase «returns than the alternatives»

If there is a parallel to draw between the 2017 Bitcoin boom and the 1637 tulip craze, it is that the vast majority of people purchasing bitcoins in December have been buying (and selling) a store of value perceived to offer better (worse) returns than the alternatives on offer.

I found this part of the article interesting:... he says, long - term investors must hold stocks, because risky as the market may be, it is still likely to produce better returns than the alternatives.

Not exact matches

The alternative likely on the minds of many investors is selling off parts of the business rather than spending millions during uncertain times for uncertain returns.

«This was a very difficult decision to make, but after reviewing many other options since I returned to the company in September, our financial condition leaves us no other alternative than to close these stores,» said CEO Edmond Thomas in a statement announcing the closures.

That return also implied that without the alternative minimum tax, which Trump wants to repeal, he would have paid less than 3.5 percent of his income in federal income taxes.

Cash alternatives, such as money market funds, typically offer lower rates of return than longer - term equity or fixed - income securities and may not keep pace with inflation over extended periods of time.

There are alternatives that can protect investors from future inflation that are less volatile (TIPS) or offer a better return profile (REITs and even high quality dividend stocks) than commodities.

The thing is, the alternative to dividend investing — investing for total return — will get you even more money than a dividend investing strategy ever will.

In fact, part of why I like the state crowdfunding alternatives (alternatives to JOBS Act Title III) is that they seem to take more of the approach that people want to back small companies for reasons that are as compelling or more compelling than the prospect of financial return.

In addition, many upper - middle - income taxpayers who face the Alternative Minimum Tax — a higher tax than their regular income tax — will not be able to claim deductions that may be allowed on a regular tax return, according to tax analyst Mark Luscombe of CCH, part of Wolters Kluwer.

«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.

Stocks have historically provided a higher return than bonds or cash alternatives.

In other words, the choice which Life requires of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance of Being, which leads us, by way of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a single road.

But since they're returning to work more quickly, it has led them to turn to formula rather than cow's milk as a suitable feeding alternative.

«This is the first large - scale gillnet ban to save a species from extinction, and includes provisions for the development of alternative fishing gear to replace gillnets,» said Barbara Taylor, chair of the Society's Conservation Committee, who recently returned from more than two months aboard a research ship surveying the northern Gulf of California for vaquita.

Simon Pegg returns to the screen as Sidney Young, failing journalist with an alter - ego who is less alternative than ego.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

For investors, it adds additional diversification to their investment portfolio and provides the opportunity to earn higher returns on their money than through many other common investment alternatives.

Peer to peer loans can also be a great deal for investors, since they may be able to earn a much higher return on their money than through other common alternatives.

My key question in deciding whether to sell a stock is whether I think its future returns are likely to be less than alternative investments.

However, as a result of investors» pursuit of better - diversified portfolios and a recognition that systematic risk factors explain the majority of returns, the development of commodity alternative beta products is gathering pace... From our investigation in this study, there appears to be potential benefit in allocating into alternative beta strategies as part of a portfolio's commodity allocation, and we find that combining risk - based and factor - based commodity strategies has historically delivered higher return and lower risk than passive long - only strategies on their own.»

If you have not filed a federal tax return in the past two years, or if your income now is substantially different than what it was when you filed, you will have to provide alternative documentation.

Our investment advice: When it comes to choosing between stock or bonds and you're reluctant to hold a 100 % - stocks portfolio — and many people are — then one alternative to consider is to keep a portion of your investment funds in relatively short - term fixed - return investments, with maturity dates of a few months to no more than two to three years in the future.

To put that in other words, what they show is how well each fund did compared to the rest in their class, on the basis of their total returns after discounting sales charges, loads and redemption fees, and including a «penalty» if the fund experienced larger price fluctuations, in average, than its alternatives (or a plus if it suffered smaller ones).

In order to maximize cash in old age or at least five years from now, investors try to transmute cash into various alternatives that promise but rarely guarantee better returns than cash can generate in the short term.

It's not an absolute - return product, so we're looking to offer higher returns than other bond - market - focused alternatives.

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.

It's worth noting however, that over 90 % of variations are successful - your creditors don't want to see your IVA fail anymore than you do as the alternative is usually a lower return for them in Bankruptcy.

«The potential returns, minus your costs to have the account, are historically better than many other alternatives.

The goal is to achieve an alternative risk - return profile which is more attractive than a simple capitalization - weighted index such as the S&P 500.

Peer to peer lending can be a great deal for investors, since they may be able to earn a higher return on their money than through other common alternatives.

Speaking of Vanguard, it's making its second foray in the world of liquid alts (after Vanguard Market Neutral) with Vanguard Alternative Strategies Fund seeks to generate returns that have low correlation with the returns of the stock and bond markets, and that are less volatile than the overall U.S. stock market.

The goal is to achieve an alternative risk - return profile, which is more attractive than a simple capitalization - weighted index such as the Russell 2000.

But alternatives with some risk attached are superior only if the return more than fully compensates for the risk.

These funds can be considered as an effective alternative to fixed deposits and recurring deposits as they have potential to generate higher returns than conventional fixed deposits.

Though past performance is no guarantee of future results, stocks historically have provided higher long - term total returns than cash alternatives or bonds.

If there's not an attractive place to put the money, it will eaither sit in cash or be invested in less - than - desirable alternatives which will drag down returns.

However, when you're looking at marketing strategy alternatives, some home inspection marketing strategies have a much hire return on investment than others.

Alternative investments: strategies that produce returns by taking risk other than equity and bond risk.

In order to help you switch to similar low - fee alternatives, FeeX presents alternative investments with better past returns (when possible) than your original investments.

I sort of looked at it as owning a bunch of alternative assets, but it's much more than that due to the leverage they get from asset management and higher than underlying asset returns due to turning the portfolio over.

Additionally, there are many alternative investments with higher returns than these two indexes where a portion of our assets should be allocated.

An alternative approach that rebalances many uncorrelated asset classes, each with returns equivalent to the S&P 500, strains to do better than 4.5 %.

Its a scam - and its proven to return less than alternative strategies whether one does historical analysis or Monte Carlo simulations on it.

Conceptually, if a corporation can support a long term return of 10 % (nominal), it carries less risk to a retiree if the return is strictly from dividends alone than an alternative that requires capital appreciation as well as dividend income to deliver the same return.

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.

Over the course of her more than fifty - year career, Riley has frequently returned to earlier ideas and even to specific works in order to identify alternative directions that a form could take.

A cost - benefit study conducted for Scenic Hudson by Glenn Erikson of Black River Advisors, a credentialed Manhattan investment analyst, indicates that this alternative plan would be an economic boon to investors, providing them with a return of more than 30 percent — the top - of - the - industry standard.

Remember that after the typical 5 - 7 year payback period consumers receive pure electricity savings over what will be a 25 year useful life of their solar panels - the investment return is greater than the other alternatives.