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Discover LudwigThe phrase "absolute rate of return" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in financial contexts to describe the return on an investment without comparing it to a benchmark or index.
Example: "The absolute rate of return on the investment was 15%, indicating a strong performance over the year."
Alternatives: "total return" or "overall return".
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The problem occurs because, just as in sports, an investment fund's success depends less on its absolute rate of return than on how that rate compares with those of rivals.
To grow and survive, the company must learn to delegate tasks to key managers and to deal with diminishing absolute rate of return and overstaffing at the middle levels.
Playing aggressively within mini-cycles is the only way to invest for a competitive absolute rate of return.
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We also defined and presented absolute rates of treatment success.
In recent years NPV (Net Present Value) has often been chosen as the absolute metric and IRR (Internal Rate of Return) as the normalized one.
At a Senate hearing last August, he said that during that period, "because of deposit insurance, deposits would come into a failing institution by the tens of millions of dollars and seize a higher rate of return with absolute certainty that the taxpayer was going to pick up the bill".
Corporate taxes may be graduated according to the rate of return on invested capital rather than the absolute size of profits.
Should we worry about the rate of return, the 100% rate of return or should we worry about the absolute return?
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