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- Assessing Risk-adjusted Rate of Return
- Risk-adjusted Rate of Return is a performance measure that adjusts for the initial risk an investor takes at the time of a purchase.Every investor works with risk, but if they can quantify it, they should be able to make more informed decisions about which risks are worth taking. Calculating risk-adjusted...
- Articles 2007-12-12
- Reacting to Returns and Volatility Can Hurt Your Portfolio
- Many investors rush to stocks when returns are good and flee when things get volatile. Here's why you should fight the urge to react to such occurrences. by Larry Swedroe
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- What Is Market Efficiency?
- When money is put into the stock market, it is done with the aim of generating a return on the capital invested. Many investors try not only to make a profitable return but also to outperform, or "Beat," the market. However, market efficiency - detailed in the Efficient Market Hypothesis...
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- Projected Returns: Honing the Craft
- Deciphering historical returns is the first step in understanding future returns. As one has seen, determining future returns for fixed income and IPS is an easier task than for equities. At the very least, these projected returns give's one a base in determining the relative value of those three asset...
- White papers 2005-02-08
- The Risk and Return of Venture Capital
- This paper measures the expected return, standard deviation, alpha, and beta of venture capital investments. Overcoming selection bias is the central hurdle in evaluating these investments, and it is the focus of this paper. A valuation is only observed when a firm goes public, receives new financing, or is acquired....
- White papers 2004-03-19
- Bad Check: Notice Of First Return, Certified
- This template is for bad check with notice of first return, certified.
- Tools & templates
- Bad Check: Notice Of First Return
- This template is for bad check with notice of first return.
- Tools & templates
- Request For Instructions On Return Of Wrong Merchandise
- The product you received is wrong one or does not match with your specification that's why you want returned it. Then use this template to request for instruction on return of merchandise.
- Tools & templates 2007-12-01
- What Is The Return On My Stock If I Sell Now?
- Want to know what is the return on the stock if you sell now? Here is tool to calculate it.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Financial Pricing Models for Property-Casualty Insurance Products: The Target Return on Capital
- The target return on capital is the cost of capital for the insurance enterprise, or the return demanded by suppliers of capital. This paper describes the major considerations in selecting the target return on capital. The target return on capital selected by the company's management may vary with the phases...
- White papers 2003-03-05
- Some Thoughts on the Sources of Return to Managed Futures
- This article offers a method of identifying which futures markets should be most likely to offer positive returns to speculative capital. This article also offers an intuitive explanation for several stylized facts about managed futures. Those historical returns have, on average, exceeded the cost of capital for a long enough...
- White papers 2005-07-22
- Recent Developments in the Private Equity Market and the Role of Preferred Returns
- Private equity is generally considered the most expensive source of finance, sought by firms that cannot support debt because of their high risk, and that have severe information problems and little track record to attract public equity. Such firms have difficulty raising capital because of the intensive need for due...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform
- This paper describes the risks implied by a mixed system of Social Security pension benefits with different combinations of pay-as-you-go taxes and personal retirement account PRA saving. The analysis shows how these risks can be reduced by using alternative private market guarantee strategies. The first such strategy uses a blend...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- The Rewards of Focused Growth: Happy Returns for Shareholders
- In today's uncertain markets, generating sustainable and above average shareholder returns is more important than ever. The forces that drove the two-decades-long bull market have dissipated. Investors, bruised by two years of poor returns, are now carefully seeking companies with convincing strategies that are capable of producing attractive returns over...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- The Conditional Distribution of Real Estate Returns: Relating Time Variation in Higher Moments to Downside Risk Measurement
- Previous research has shown that the returns on individual properties and listed property securities are skewed. This claim is investigated in the context of listed UK property companies. In particular, the shape of the conditional distribution of total monthly returns is examined for a group of 20 companies listed continuously...
- White papers 2001-03-13
- Expected Returns, Yield Spreads, and Asset Pricing Tests
- This paper uses yield spreads to construct ex-ante returns on corporate securities, and then use the ex-ante returns in asset pricing assets. Differently from the standard approach, the tests do not use ex-post average returns as a proxy for expected returns. It finds that the market beta plays a much...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Optimizing Your Technology Investment: How Can You Obtain the Best or Quickest Return on Your Investment?
- Healthcare organizations that are unable to achieve the full benefits of new technology may not obtain the best or quickest return on their investment. While installing the right equipment can potentially improve the quality of care and patient experience your organization provides, only effective and complete use of that equipment...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- A Global Fixed Income Approach to Absolute Return
- This paper describes how an unconstrained long-only global fixed income strategy, managed against the Lehman Brothers Global Aggregate Index, can serve as the framework for an absolute return strategy. Both strategies would have the same investment universe, but the absolute return strategy would include long and short positions. In an...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- A Global Perspective on External Positions
- The paper uses a standard single-agent model to conduct a simple consumption growth accounting exercise. Consumption growth is driven by news about current and expected future returns on the market portfolio. The market portfolio includes financial and human wealth. The evidence from the cross-section of stock returns suggests that the...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- What Is The Bond Return If I Sell Now?
- This calculator shows rates of return for a bond if you should sell it today. A graph shows you the trade-off in rates of return if you hold to maturity. Returns are provided on a pretax and after-tax basis.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
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