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- Asset Mix
- Asset mix is the allocation of a portfolio between asset classes, it balances return and risk. Returns are a combination of the income from an investment and the price appreciation over the period. Risk is usually proxied by the "standard deviation" of returns, how much the return changes about the...
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- How Much Do Fees Affect My Fund's Rate Of Return?
- This tool calculates the impact of brokerage fees, loads and fund operating expenses on a mutual fund's investment returns. Returns are shown before and after taxes. All of these expenses, as well as taxes, drag down a fund's investment return.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- What Fund Share Price Achieves My Target Rate Of Return?
- This tool calculates the price at which you will have to sell shares of a mutual fund to realize your desired rate of return. Returns are calculated before and after taxes. The tool deducts brokerage fees and taxes (for after-tax returns) and calculates your return on an annualized basis.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- 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
- What Selling Price Provides My Target Rate Of Return On My Fund?
- This calculator calculates the price at which you will have to sell shares of a mutual fund to realize your desired rate of return. Returns are calculated before and after taxes. The calculator deducts brokerage fees and taxes (for after-tax returns) and calculates your return on an annualized basis. You...
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- How Much Do Fees Affect My Return On My Fund?
- This calculator calculates the impact of brokerage fees, loads and fund operating expenses on a mutual funds investment returns. Returns are shown before and after taxes. All of these expenses, as well as taxes, drag down a funds investment return. You pay brokerage fees when you buy and sell shares...
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Enterprise Computing Systems As Information Factories
- The analysis, and eventual approval or rejection, of new enterprise Information Technology IT initiatives often proceeds on the basis of informal estimates of return on investment. Investment in new IT initiatives includes the costs of hardware, software licenses, application development tailored to the enterprise, and maintenance. Returns are typically estimated...
- White papers 2006-06-29
- Widespread Pension Demands Compound Fiscal Crises
- Pension fund obligations are compounding the fiscal crises of cities and counties, which already face huge revenue shortfalls because of state budget cuts. The states of West Virginia, North Carolina and Oregon have among the worst-funded public pension plans in the nation. The shortfalls have appeared partly due to accounting...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Deriving Market Expectations for the Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate From Option Prices
- Option prices provide valuable information on market expectations. This paper attempts to extract market expectations, as conveyed by an implied risk-neutral probability distribution, from option prices for the dollar-euro exchange rates. Returns' volatilities are inferred from observed and interpolated option prices. To address robustness, two distributions, one from actual data...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- How Much Do Fees Affect My Fund's Rate Of Return?
- This tool calculates the impact of brokerage fees, loads and fund operating expenses on a mutual fund's investment returns. Returns are shown before and after taxes. All of these expenses, as well as taxes, drag down a fund's investment return.
- Tools & templates 2009-01-01
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- The Time-Varying Nature of the Link between REIT, Real Estate and Financial Asset Returns
- This study examines the sensitivity of equity real estate investment trust REIT returns to returns on other asset classes, including real estate, using an estimation method that explicitly allows for variation over time in the sensitivities. The results show that the relationship between REIT returns and returns to bonds, small...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Hedging Mutual Fund Returns Using Futures Markets And ETFs
- The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of hedging mutual fund returns using Index Futures Contracts and ETFs. Historical daily Lipper Large Value Growth mutual fund index returns, is used to represent a mutual fund portfolio. The mutual fund returns are hedged using index futures as well...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Newgistics Launches SmartLabel Returns Center; New Online Returns Portal Gives Customers More Control and Visibility Into Returns Process While Reducing Burden on Call Centers
- AUSTIN, Texas -- Newgistics, Inc., the leader in returns management solutions for direct retailers, today introduced SmartLabelR Returns Center, a new service offering that puts customers in control of the merchandise return process. SmartLabel Returns Center provides another opportunity for retailers to foster customer loyalty and reduce call center volume...
- Research articles 2004-09-20
- Earnings and Expected Returns
- The aggregate dividend payout ratio forecasts aggregate excess returns on both stocks and corporate bonds in post-war US data. Both high corporate profits and high stock prices forecast low excess returns on equities. When the payout ratio is high, expected returns are high. The payout ratio's correlation with business conditions...
- White papers 1996-10-16
- Stock Market Returns: A Temperature Anomaly
- This study investigates if stock market returns are related to the temperature. Psychological research has shown that temperature is one of the meteorological variables that significantly affect people's mood. Mood changes in turn lead to behavioral changes. It is known that lower temperatures can lead to aggression, while higher tempratures...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Making Sense of Hedge Fund Returns: What Matters and What Doesn't
- While the past year has seen much discussion of performance a few notable hedge fund failures, there has been relatively little effort to consider systematically the sources of returns to hedge funds in general. Consideration needs to be devoted to the economic determinants of hedge fund returns both during periods...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Making Sense of Hedge Fund Returns: What Matters and What Doesn't
- While the past year has seen much discussion of performance a few notable hedge fund failures, there has been relatively little effort to consider systematically the sources of returns to hedge funds in general. Consideration needs to be devoted to the economic determinants of hedge fund returns both during periods...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- On the Cross Section of Conditionally Expected Stock Returns
- In this paper, it uses macrovariables advocated by recent authors to make out-of-sample forecast for returns on individual stocks and then sort stocks equally into ten portfolios on this proxy of conditionally expected returns. The average returns increase monotonically from the first decile stocks with the lowest expected returns to...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- The Variability Of IPO Initial Returns
- The monthly volatility of IPO Initial Public Offering initial returns is substantial and fluctuates dramatically over time. Moreover, the monthly volatility of initial returns is significantly positively correlated with monthly mean initial returns. This contrasts strongly with the strong negative correlation between the mean and volatility of secondary-market returns. Consistent...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- How Philips reduced returns.(Prevention)(Philips Consumer Electronics Co)
- The answer to reducing the cost of returns does not always lie in improving your reverse logistics operations. At Philips Consumer Electronics, the returns management department has focused on how it can stop returns before they even enter the reve The answer to reducing...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
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