Sentences with phrase «than a negative return»

In these circumstances, I think that any choice that leaves the investor with something other than a negative return can be viewed favorably.

Waiting until December does incur the risk of negative returns, but — as Benz points out — stocks and bonds tend to have positive returns on an annual basis far more often than negative returns.

Not exact matches

«A business earning 20 percent on capital can produce a negative real return for its owners under inflationary conditions not much more severe than presently prevail.»

Both stocks average a return of negative 0.77 percent when the VIX jumps more than 5 percent in one session.

So more than twice as many decade - long stretches historically have shown negative real returns in bonds than stocks.

As Russ Koesterich points out, cash typically produces lower returns than stocks or bonds, and once you invest for both inflation and taxes, average long - term rates are negative.

Other than that one time, over any ten year period, long bonds never showed a negative nominal return.

As cash has no negative returns, the volatility might not be any higher than it would be in a portfolio that includes bonds.

A twelve - month return of less than negative twenty percent occurred eighteen percent of the time following a downward trending market.

A downside capture ratio less than 100 indicates the strategy lost less than the index in negative monthly return periods.

As a result, even though expected returns on stocks were actually negative on a 10 - 12 year horizon in 2000, and are presently 0 - 2 % on that horizon, the expected return on a traditional portfolio mix is actually lower at present than at any point in history except the 1929 and 1937 market peaks.

So far the lack of yield on gilts is more than made up for by the negative correlation with stocks on down days, but more curious how the long term total return compares.

The largest negative deviation was in October 1974, when the actual annual 10 - year return for the S&P 500 was about 5 % lower than the projections that our valuation methodology indicated a decade earlier.

Notice that the positive relationship between monetary growth and subsequent market returns (a coefficient about +0.4) is weaker than the negative relationship -LRB--0.6) that initiated the monetary easing in the first place.

Fewer than 5 % of respondents think they had negative returns, but more than 25 % actually had negative returns.

The second study also shows that any investment at PEs of less than 12 always had positive ten - year real returns, while investments at PE ratios of 12 and higher experienced negative real returns at some stage.

On the basis of nominal total returns (including dividends), we estimate zero or negative returns for the S&P 500 on every horizon shorter than about 8 years.

In the intervening time since 1984, market action has caused the predictive power of negative returns in January to fall to around 50 %, which is nothing more than chance.

Stocks have a less - than - stellar reputation in the month of June, as the S&P 500 often notches slightly negative returns in the sixth month of the year.

While Santos, the Australian energy pioneer since 1954, has not paid any STI or LTI to its executives in 2015, Woodside felt confident enough to pay out 82 % of STIs and more than half of LTIs to its managing director, despite negative shareholder return during the year.

While studies show that mergers and acquisitions as a group are value neutral or negative for shareholders (on average the selling company gets all the excess returns), The Outsiders explored how some management teams focused on driving shareholder value with their M&A rather than simply using it as a mechanism to get bigger, have shown extraordinary success.

It concluded that negative intermeeting stock market returns are a stronger predictor of subsequent target changes in the Fed funds rate than any commonly followed macroeconomic variable.

Yet, if you had an asset allocation that included 65 % stocks and 35 % bonds, your overall investment returns would have been better than the all stock portfolio - although still in negative territory.

Instead of keeping 20 % in cash, thereby reducing expected risk to 12 %, the investor could move into 10y government bonds with a higher return than cash and even a little bit of negative correlation with equities.

Interestingly, if over the course of the forecast horizon, they go up and then revert back to where they are today, the effect on the return will actually be negative, because there will be no net change in valuation, but some of the ensuing dividends will have been reinvested at higher valuations than those available today.

Basically, a Market Climate says «when these conditions were historically true, here is the set of returns that the market had - some are positive, some are negative, but look, the average return / risk profile is different in this Climate than in the other ones.»

For high - growth stocks, the growth rate (g) may be higher than the required rate of return (r), in which case the suggested stock value would be a negative number.

As you add money to your invested funds over time, your risk gets amplified such that a negative return in later years will cost you more in absolute dollar terms than in earlier years.

It seems to me implausible that all these people, and so many more, who have made a negative judgment on the medieval idea of God, were less competent than those who now wish to return essentially to the medieval perspective.

Thanks to hippos» stunning wound - healing abilities — perhaps related to the antibacterial properties of the creepy «red sweat» that coats their skin — all the surviving animals were able to return to their feces - infested communal pools within hours of the surgery with no negative consequences, just a little bit nicer than when they left.

For example, if you are doing a negative bench press, you would start with the weight in the top position (the weight would be more than you could lift on your own if you had to push it back up), lower that heavy weight under control to the bottom position of the exercise, then have a partner help you return the weight back to the top position.

There's an amusing love triangle (certainly more involving than what was witnessed in the recent «Twilight» saga), commentary on waning humanism through tyrannical rule, and an unveiling of the supremely negative influences of politically slanted media, primarily as it defines celebrity — but it's all buried deep beneath basic adventures of wilderness survival that are curiously manipulated back into the script for a twist and return to the first film's plot.

Bertolucci and Professor Robin Blackburn (editor of NEW LEFT REVIEW) appear to have a less negative take on the outcome of the revolution than the returning Adair does, but that's splitting hairs — in the end, the three viewpoints are more complementary than contradictory.

More than one psephologist has shown that it is not uncommon for people, when repeatedly asked the same question, to give a positive response the first time, offer a negative one on the second occasion, and then return to a positive position the third time around.

There's been a spike in negative evaluations of teachers since Deasy has arrived, and no doubt some teachers will be more than happy to return the favor.

As for the discount brokerage study, if you read it closely, you'll see that even though men traded more than women and their more frenetic trading had a greater negative impact on their performance, the authors don't say that men ultimately ended up with lower returns than women.

In fact, EEM has a significant tracking error as you can see in the table below (negative tracking error means ETF returns were higher than the index):

The negative yield environment is reflective of a principal preservation mentality, in which market participants are more concerned with «return of capital» than «return on capital.»

Its SMA composite has posted negative returns in six of 60 months but has never lost money in more than two consecutive months (during the 2011 taper tantrum).

That's certainly better than the valuations we observed in 2000 (when the S&P 500, by our estimate, was priced to achieve negative 10 - year returns).

The same strategy I back - tested, produced a much greater downside deviation (a measure of the volatility of negative returns) than the index.

While returns on both equity indices were only slightly negative, the last two months of the quarter more than offset the red - hot start the markets got off to in January.

As Russ Koesterich points out, cash typically produces lower returns than stocks or bonds, and once you invest for both inflation and taxes, average long - term rates are negative.

It rarely provides a stronger return than stocks, but it almost never has a negative return.

If a company is trading for less than its book value (or has a P / B less than one), it normally tells investors one of two things: Either the market believes the asset value is overstated, or the company is earning a very poor (even negative) return on its assets.

In some years, your diversified investment portfolio may earn negative returns, and in other years returns will be much higher than 8.5 percent.

If a database that is used in simulating portfolios omits the strongly negative returns of delisted stocks, the hypothetical results will be better than what actual portfolios can achieve in practice.

If the ending value after adjusting for net withdrawals or additions is less than the beginning value, the division will produce a figure that is less than 1.00 (for example 0.80); subtracting 1.00 then produces a negative figure [0.80 - 1.00 = -0.20, or -20 %], and the return represents a loss.

a negative return on an investment resulting from the sale price of a security being lower than the purchase price

their investment returns were more variable than expected so that yearly withdrawals had a bigger negative effect,