Sentences with phrase «small positive return»

If the stock market behaves itself over a period of interest (and, often, it does not), you can leverage a small positive return with narrow scatter into a large return with a tolerable amount of scatter.

I didn't make a lot of money, but I did get at least a small positive return from each of the asset classes I own, including equities, which is something given the TSX fell 11.07 % last year.

Not exact matches

«Our analysis finds that positive total returns were experienced irrespective of market environment,» Small said.

In each regime, they test the ability of a lagged multi-indicator sentiment index to forecast equally weighted hedge portfolio returns, focusing on stocks most likely susceptible to mispricing (small - capitalization stocks, stocks without positive earnings, growth stocks and stocks that pay no dividend).

However, again indicative of the small sample or the non-normality of return distributions, exclusion of a single extreme weekly observation can switch the alpha from positive to negative.

As of this writing, the portfolio is down 2.11 % including dividends, compared to a positive return of 11.63 % (excluding dividends) for SPY over the same period and 10.5 % for Vanguard Small Cap Value ETF (VBR) over the same time period.

Only our small positions in the U.K. and the Netherlands generated positive rates of return.

The quarter's sizable decrease changed the Fund's calendar nine - month return from a small positive gain to a 16 % loss.

Assemblywoman Jane Corwin has launched her third TV ad, this time returning to her positive approach of showcasing her accomplishments as a small businesswoman instead of attacking her Democatic opponent, Erie County Clerk Kathy Hochul.

It is a small price to pay for a positive return that is too great to measure.

In return, just do me a small favor and compose a positive review for it on Amazon.

Canadian equities were positive but far less robust, with Canadian large caps returning 13.26 % and Canadian small caps 7.76 %.

A small positive inflation adjusted return is healthy for savers, and good for the economy.

The Permanent Portfolio mutual fund posted an annualized return of 11.8 % over the 10 years ending June 30, and even managed to eke out a small positive gain in 2008, when just about everyone else took a bath.

Dispersion of returns also indicated the strategy proved to have a small number of extremely negative quarters and a high number of positive quarters.

Since 1978, the average yearly return in the 30 smallest companies in the S&P 500 has had a higher positive correlation with the Russell 2000 than with the big - cap index.

The positive information ratio of Group 1 also highlights that small - cap companies with profitability characteristics were able to generate higher excess returns over the benchmark (the small - cap universe in this case) on a consistent basis.

Return to Positive cash flow with small down payment?.

Like popular factors, all popular strategies in all regions (with the exception of small cap in emerging markets) have positive historical returns.

As for Europe, any kind of positive 2014 return (however small) was a pleasant & surprising blessing in the face of continued German intransigence & ECB inaction.

The goal: to achieve positive returns while minimizing the downside risk of Small Cap equity investing.

Over the last five years, the losses for these well - diversified target date funds were small, with the nearest target date and income funds providing positive returns over what was an extremely difficult time period for stocks.

Even with the costs and problems of these inverse funds, a simple portfolio with the S&P 500 ETF and an inverse small - cap fund a year ago would have delivered a positive return of about 6 % over the last 12 months with a sub 1 % downside in the February slide.

The «guilt trip» isn't true Among the small minority of TNR programs which still test every cat, the main argument advanced is that, by returning a cat who is FIV or FeLV positive, you are responsible for the deaths of any other cats who catch the diseases from him or her.

Given the relatively small amount of effort I put into Twitter, I think that is a net positive return.

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Now, as PTO Director, he has the opportunity to create a positive and important change to reduce patent litigation abuse and return billions of dollars to productive use, particularly for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

It is a win, even if by a small margin, and was the result of a correction that returned it to positive results.