Sentences with phrase «than the inflation rate»

The reason being that the investment mix often earned more than the inflation rate over many years.

In my 20 years of professional experience, interest rates on credit card and installment debt have never been lower than the inflation rate except for very short periods.

If not, pull out your savings and invest your money in any investment vehicle earning higher than inflation rate.

It is relatively stable, and the appreciation rate is always greater than the inflation rate.

So if your money isn't growing faster than the inflation rate, you are in fact losing money.

But if you invest part of it in an asset that yields higher returns than inflation rate, you will be able to sustain the value of your emergency fund to certain extent.

When people's incomes increase more slowly than the inflation rate, their purchasing power declines.

But today, banks pay much lower interest rates on your savings than the inflation rate.

To answer it correctly, you must understand that if your money grows at less than the inflation rate, its purchasing power declines.

If the rate of return on your money is lower than the inflation rate you're actually losing money by keeping yours in a money market account.

In every period, the annualized rate of return for the stock portfolio was greater than the inflation rate.

That is why banks charge interest, because they want to be able to make more than the inflation rate.

In the short term, it appears that expectations, interest rate fluctuations and movements of capital have a greater influence on rates than inflation rate differentials do.

DiNapoli's report states that in the last decade, federal and state aid grew an average of 2.2 percent a year, which was less than the inflation rate of 2.4 percent during the same time.

«College tuition and fees have increased far greater than the inflation rate for food, shelter, and other consumables.»

There are at least two investments you can make at Treasury Direct that guarantee a rate of return better than the inflation rate.

If the dividend isn't growing more quickly than the inflation rate, then the dividend income each year would actually be decreasing in terms of real purchasing power even if the yield is high.

According to a Genworth Financial study, long - term care costs are rising faster than the inflation rate in all the major metropolitan areas of Florida.

This is not unlike the dilemma facing many retirees and other individual investors: holding ultra-safe interest - bearing investments is wise past a certain age; yet when yields are lower than the inflation rate, this strategy erodes buying power and undermines long - term financial security.

DALBAR's update of its Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior (QAIB) study found that while the S&P 500 has returned 8.35 % over a 20 year period ending in 2008, the average equity investor earned just 1.87 %, which was less than the inflation rate of 2.89 %.

In fact, the Bank of Canada should now be more concerned about the exchange rate than the inflation rate.

But recent changes to what is called prescribed asset requirements has freed this market from government prescription to a certain extent, with rates now generally higher than the inflation rate.

It's important to note that the assets in your portfolio should have a growth rate that's greater than the inflation rate.

The Inflation Close is used to help people rationalize parting with their money for something that either earns a greater return than the inflation rate (such as certain investments) or to improve their lifestyle with products and services whose investments are likely to increase.

The bill, a priority for the president and first lady Michelle Obama, would boost spending on child nutrition $ 4.5 billion over 10 years and raise federal reimbursements for school lunches more than the inflation rate for the first time since 1973.

Adding to the issue of expensive land prices, in December 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that construction costs are rising faster than the inflation rate: the U.S. Labor Department's consumer price index had risen only 1.3 percent above the previous year, while the construction index was higher by 5.2 percent.

In a mix of frenzied bill passing and sitting around throughout the day and night Friday, state lawmakers early Saturday adopted a new state budget that hikes state education aid by more than the inflation rate, rejects hundreds of millions in tax increases proposed by Cuomo and sets new policies for the handling of workplace sexual harassment cases.

While school aid and Medicaid saw double - digit growth between 2012 and 2018, everything else — parks, transportation, the state police, environmental regulation, prisons, etc. — was held to a combined increase of just 6 percent, a third less than the inflation rate.

ALBANY — In a mix of frenzied bill passing and sitting around throughout the day and night Friday, state lawmakers early Saturday morning adopted a new state budget that hikes state education aid by more than the inflation rate, rejects hundreds of millions in tax increases proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and sets new policies for the handling of workplace sexual harassment cases.

The risk of not keeping up with inflation is very high since the low dividend yield usually is less than the inflation rate.

If central banks cooperate with their governments, they can repress people financially, making the rate that they can invest in with safety to be lower than the inflation rate.

The real interest rate of an investment is calculated as the amount by which the nominal interest rate is higher than the inflation rate:

One of my biggest problems with having money in the bank is that if you're only getting rates that are the same or lower than the inflation rates, then you're actually loosing money.

First, you need to build up a compilation of some of the great companies that have dividend rates equal to or more than the inflation rate each year.

The money kept in Savings account or FDs loses its value due to their returns being lower than the inflation rate, however many people invests in them because they are safe.

When the return on an investment is less than the inflation rate, purchasing power is actually declining over time.

With these bonds, the principal is tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to guarantee you receive a return that is higher than the inflation rate:

If the interest rate is lower than the inflation rate, you are paying NEGATIVE interest.

While the PASS result is desirable — how much more should the portfolio return be than the inflation rate?

This «portfolio» carries almost no risk of loss, but its expected return is less than the inflation rate.

It's only a bit higher than the inflation rate (2.2 %) and the increase in compensation over the past year (2.3 %), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Plan — 20 yrs; Return shows only 2 - 3 %... less than inflation rate... Because its combine with insurance.

Traditional electric prices tend to go up more than the inflation rate, but much bigger increases are not unheard of.