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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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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My assumption is enormous free cash flow accumulation is reinvested at a high rate of return plus aggressive share buybacks.
Money will flow where it is advantageous, where there is a high rate of return, today this is the natural resource sector.
The June funded ratio, which measures assets to liabilities. is only 74% for CalPERS even using a high-rate of return assumption for its investments.
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To deal with the high rate of return on hiking boots, REI created a mini hiking path with a variety of trail surfaces and angles for testing boots.
But this might only partially mitigate the downside described above, given the high rate of return that State Street has previously seen in some of its alternative investments (including private equity and hedge fund investments).
Plus, by saving for certain goals together, you can earn a larger return on a high interest rate.
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Typically mutual funds is where we are looking at quite substantially right now for really one reason, and those tend to trend better with a lot less risk, so you know you can have market-like rate of return on high-yield-bond mutual funds with historically a third of the downside risk of the markets.
The greater the spread between the high-interest debt and the rate of return on investment, the greater the financial advantage for paying off the debt first.
In fact, the rate of return you can earn today on high yield bonds (6.61%) is the lowest absolute yield on record.
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This rapid rate of return--made possible by high valuations at time of exit--is hard to come by in more mature or heavily regulated industries.
Robert Stammers, Director of Investor Education at the CFA said that while Baidu represented the potential for opportunities in the global market, investors should not expect to earn a great rate of return by simply choosing investments with high historical returns like Baidu or choosing the stock as a means to participate in the Chinese economy.
The high fees associated with the variable annuity reduce the net rate of return received by participants in the Plan, but also enable Nationwide to pay NACo the endorsement fee.
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Asset finance has been cut back across the financial sector as the return on lending is often low and the rate of default over the last 18 months is high.
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