To offset the significant risk they face when funding unproven startups, investors often start with a simplistic expectation that they should have the potential to
see a return on their investment equal to 10 times what they put up.
Not exact matches
Review your mortgage statement to
see how much of your loan you have left to payoff, then evaluate targeting this as a goal before you retire (the «
return»
on your money is essentially
equal to your interest rate — you'll lose the tax deduction for the interest, but if you invested the same amount you'd owe taxes
on the
investment return).
Put the cursor
on the spreadsheet's cells to
see that the calculation used increases the portfolio each year by the total
return earned by its own
investments (mostly capital gains plus any dividends), PLUS the capital infusion
equal to the dividends of the S&P index.
[ix]
See the CBA's,
Equal Justice, Balancing the Scales, November 2013, at page 53, «
Return on Investment for Legal Aid Spending»; and its Special Committee Report, Crystal Clear, Strategic Directions for the CBA, August 2006, at pages 28 and 52.