The lodge has been full during the October to June season ever since, says White, and the guest return rate is a healthy 60%.
These proposals would help to generate more jobs and income, as well as a higher return rate and a better use of our tourism resources.
But the biggest hit comes from the much higher return rate sometimes up to ten percent by consumers who simply changed their mind or could not be reached at home.
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Even the return rate here is suspect.
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Series I bonds consist of two components: a fixed interest rate return and an adjustable inflation-linked return, making them somewhat similar to TIPS. The fixed rate never changes, but the inflation return rate is adjusted every six months and can also be negative (which of course brings your total return down).
The Human Resources and Social Security Department of Guangdong estimated that 10 million workers, or 61% of the province's migrant-labor pool, would head home to see their families for the New Year Holiday, with a return rate of around 90%, leaving a labor shortfall of up to 1.2 million workers after the holiday.
If not, Davis says you can go one of two ways: for a conservative investor, one who is not comfortable with the ups and downs of the market, a 401k account can see a low return rate of 2 to 3%, which he points out is often not enough to cover the inflation adjustment for retirement.
The bank has a return on equity rate of 10.4% in fiscal 2011, and a return on assets rate of 0.60% in 2011.
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Governments are also under tremendous pressure to keep their pension fund rate of return high: the lower the rate of return on investment, the greater the pension obligations become.
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When you invest in a project your primary concern is that your rate of return exceed the rate of interest that you are paying.
Knowing your desired rate of return is simple enough, but whether you can reasonably achieve that rate of return or tolerate the necessary risk is another story.
With the majority of CDOs being backed by mortgages, the principal-only tranche has a known future cash flow, but at a variable rate of return, while the interest-only tranche has both an unknown cash flow and an unknown rate of return on that cash flow.
But if, like most of us, you hold your nest egg in a savings account, a money market fund, real estate, or a 401(k) plan then what you care about is your real rate of return, not the inflation rate per se.
The earnings rate combines a 0.00% fixed rate of return with the 4.60% annualized rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U).
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While the amount will not be diversified, it will receive a guaranteed rate of return, which could be an average of prime rate plus 2%.
The dispersion is somewhat larger when measuring average annual returns (annualized return, recall, is the compounded or geometric rate of return during a multiple-year time period).
Because the dividends on Laffer Shares would vary depending upon GDP growth rates, the markets would discount the expected cash flows at an equity rate of return, which is considerably higher than the interest rate on government bonds.
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In a world where annual inflation is running at a 3% rate (actually more if you think for a moment about your rising healthcare and educational costs), there is an overwhelming demand for a security whose rate of return is a negative real (inflation-adjusted) rate of 3%.
In fact, the 14.6% average return in years of an NFC win is exactly double the rate of return in years when AFC teams take home the championship.
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Remember that diversification comes with risks, and the possibility exists that you could have a negative return on your investmentsunless some of your investments have a guaranteed rate of return.
Social investors, by contrast, see anything below inflation rate return as a failure.
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Banks now get a 25 basis point interest rate return on their reserve deposits with Federal Reserve Banks, including their excess reserves.
For financials, the Buffett-based approach also looks at the return on assets rate, which must average at least 1% over the past 10 years.
You will simply have to own stocks in the period ahead or accept a return below the rate of inflation to hold Treasuries and also watch as your portfolio loses value.
That is a relatively optimistic prediction, for it would merely return the bankruptcy rate close to its long-term average after an abnormally trouble-free period, and it assumes only a mild recession in America.
Shares of the aging discounter are essentially unchanged from where they were five years ago, meaning that an investor who bought the stock in July 2002 has made an approximate 1% return, the rate of Wal-Mart's dividend yield.
Mr DeVoretz calculates that the rate of return for a doctor who gets an education at a first-rate Canadian university and then goes to work in the United States is around 45% on the direct costs of his or her education.
Mr Leon thinks that Mr Chavez's party (PSUV) may well try to hurry along the process in order to take advantage of the emotions of Venezuelans still mourning their lost leader, and before problems such as Venezuela's high inflation rate return to the forefront of their minds.
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The down-side is that if you look to another type of investment, the stock market for example, that offers a potentially higher rate of return, then the likelihood is that it will come with a higher rate of risk attached to it.
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