Example sentences of "return of [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , Group III shares have the highest systematic risk and are expected to give a return of 14 per cent . |
| 2 | Group 1 shares have low systematic risks and are expected to earn a return of 10 per cent . |
| 3 | Assuming that the contributions are made during the five years the child is at a fee-paying school the difference in total cost works out at £43,000 at an investment return of 13 per cent , compared with £58,320 at 8.5 per cent . |
| 4 | For a man who took out a 25-year mortgage endowment policy at the age of 29 with a £30-a-month premium , the payout on a policy maturing this year has been cut from £62,543 to £59,602 , which represents an annual rate of return of 13 per cent . |
| 5 | Taking into account the proposed dividend of 2.2p , this amounts to a total return of 18.3 per cent , though it is less than the increase in the Hoare Govett Smaller Companies — up 24.1 per cent . |
| 6 | That gives an annual return of eight per cent — more than from most building societies . |
| 7 | Investors are getting a real return of 4.5 per cent on their cash . |
| 8 | If investors require an expected return of 8 per cent p.a. , what prices would they expect to pay for the following : |
| 9 | Skandia 's Performance Bond guarantees the return of 95 per cent of capital invested , plus 100 per cent of any increase in the FT-SE 100 index at November 1994 . |
| 10 | This means that looking at the process in an ex-post fashion , the underwriters made a return of 1.11 per cent . |
| 11 | At 707p a share , which is higher than the top end of the range indicated in the pathfinder prospectus , Eurodisney offers an average return of 13.3 per cent , compared to more than 17 per cent for Eurotunnel when it was floated . |
| 12 | Take an investment of £1,000 achieving a gross investment return of 7 per cent a year . |
| 13 | Since 1980 DLOs have had to make a return of 5 per cent on capital . |
| 14 | The 1978 changes were ( 1 ) the introduction of a required real rate of return of 5 per cent , not on new investment projects , as the test discount rate implied , but on existing capital assets , and ( 2 ) the introduction of cash limits for each industry , a target profit or loss specified by the government in the light of the industry 's circumstances . |
| 15 | Levy and Sarrat argued that as the US market index had a mean return of 12.1 per cent and a standard deviation of 12.1 per cent , international diversification improved portfolio characteristics by reducing risk . |
| 16 | In the second example , suppose a specific project is under consideration and the manager , but no one else , knows there is a 0.7 probability it will yield a return of 20 per cent on the investment , with a 0.3 probability that it will yield nothing . |
| 17 | However , this does not imply that BT will underperform during the next 12 months or that those shares which overperformed ( e.g. ICI with an abnormal return of +40 per cent ) will repeat their past performance . |
| 18 | THE odds are worse than for on-course betting , with a return of 81 per cent . |
| 19 | Rising capital growth also helped the retail sector retain its high return of 10.9 per cent , again with rentals holding steady . |
| 20 | Even if you pay income tax , it still amounts to a real return of 2 per cent . |
| 21 | This took the form of allowing trusts to make a maximum return of 6 per cent on assets , and arrangements to ensure that certain services deemed essential would continue to be provided locally . |
| 22 | With a net return of 12 per cent easily attainable from building society and bank high interest accounts , it is still cheaper to borrow and keep your savings on deposit . |
| 23 | One US study found that spillovers lead to average cost reductions of between 5 and 13 per cent in the short run and 10–20 per cent in the long run , creating a divergence between private and social rates of return of 67 per cent in chemicals , 123 percent in petroleum , 30 percent in machinery , and 90 percent in instrument engineering ( Bernstein and Nadiri , 1989 ) . |
| 24 | The Optimum Income Trust , which will give an income return of 8.5 per cent , is to be marketed to financial intermediaries as well as stockbrokers . |
| 25 | They can expect an income return of 8.5 per cent in the first year . |
| 26 | With liquid assets of £1.3 million , a profit margin of 18 per cent and a return of 15 per cent on capital the county must be the envy of many businesses totally unconnected with cricket . |
| 27 | For example , Bass shares could have been bought for 567p and sold for 652p , a gross return of 15 per cent ( about 7 per cent after costs ) . |
| 28 | This means that the seller has made a return of 50 per cent on his initial investment of 200 in just five days while the buyer has lost 50 per cent of his initial investment . |
| 29 | To be regarded as equivalent to this , a pure discount bond ( making a lump sum payment at the end of year 2 with no year 1 payment ) would require a rate of return of 10.26 per cent ( the spot yield ) , i.e. for the same investment of 100 , the maturity value would have to be 121.57 ( i.e. 100 x ( 1.1026 ) 2 ) . |
| 30 | On a ten-year policy , the payout has been cut from £7,331 to £6,175 , equivalent to an annual rate of return of 10.4 per cent . |