The entire selling point of the annuity is a lower return in exchange for a guarantee.
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And investors have shown they require more return in exchange for the extra risk--new inflows into hedge funds are down almost 50% from the first three months of the year, according to Tremont Capital Management.
During that war, Spain exported so much to the belligerents, without being able to buy in return, that it stacked up foreign exchange and turned it in for gold.
Companies were offered "buybacks" instead, under which they drilled for oil, built pipelines and handed over the assets to the government in exchange for a fixed return, paid in oil.
That plan, which calls for Israel to withdraw from Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights and accept millions of foreign Arabs as citizens as part of the so-called "right of return" in exchange for "natural" relations with the Arab world, has been rejected by successive Israeli governments as a diplomatic subterfuge whose goal is Israel's destruction.
Sarkozy's "good offices will be definitive in this matter to secure the return home of Ms. Ingrid and the other hostages in an exchange, " FARC spokesman Raul Reyes told Anncol news service, which often carries rebel statements.
To ease that pressure, the government has announced that it no longer requires exporters to surrender their foreign exchange in return for yuan.
That means that you must include in gross income on your federal income tax return the fair market value of goods and services received in exchange for goods or services you provide.
In terms of performance in the last year, iPath Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Total Return exchange-traded note ( JJA) has been the clear winner, gaining a full 59.10%.
Participants trade goods and services to each other in return for agreed LETS credits, which are recorded in a central exchange.
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In March 2012, Pyongyang agreed to halt portions of its nuclear and missile programs and accept the return of nuclear inspectors in exchange for 240, 000 metric tons of U.S. food aid.
What makes the Hines story unusual is that it concentrates on the most complex, difficult projects, the ones that require an inordinate amount of money and planning up front in exchange for a greater return later on.
What makes the Hines story unusual is that the firm concentrates on the most complex, difficult projects, the ones that require an inordinate amount of money and planning up front in exchange for a greater return later on.
Ansar al-Sharia demanded the authorities release Islamist fighters from jail in exchange for the soldiers' safe return.
After we raise (or eliminate) the debt limit, we can return government securities to the trust fund in exchange for the IOUs.
China Eastern will also return five Airbus A340-300s to in exchange for 15 smaller wide-body A330s, which could be operated on domestic routes, Bloomberg reported.
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There are moments brief, valuable moments of exploration, discovery and fun, spaced between hours upon hours of smashing through the same zombie horde with the same blunt object to recover some new tan-colored Macguffin and return it to some new desperate survivor in exchange for the same old stick with a new skin.
Sure Warren Buffett seems to keep making money but he has enough capital and clout to negotiate preferred stock deals to rescue distressed companies in exchange for no-lose deals that give him a 6% guaranteed return with the chance for upside in the stock, as he did with Bank of America (BAC) in August.
In exchange, PLO leaders were allowed to return from exile in Tunisia and recognized as the Palestinian Authority, the governing body of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
On March 7th, the VHP seemed to have made a concession by agreeing to accept the eventual verdict of a court on the ownership of the Ayodhya plotO In exchange though, it wants the government to return to it control of land immediately next to the site by June, and to be allowed to conduct a ritual on that land on March 15th.
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The Bombay Stock Exchange SENSEX India Index has return nearly 20% in the last five years.
But it is interesting to note that Chase Manhattan, concerned about liability over its multiple roles in the Rutherford-Moran fiasco, agreed that same day to return 2.2 million penny-a-share warrants in exchange for a release from potential litigation.
The launch of the Pimco Total Return Exchange-Traded Fund will test the mettle of investors with trillions of dollars invested in traditional bond mutual funds.
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Free trade ensures that we largely get what we want in return for what we produce, and it ensures that the greatest number of producers will compete to exchange with us.
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Shareholders can exchange their shares in the stockmarket at the market price, but the firm promises them no particular return.
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