Sentence examples for anemic returns from inspiring English sources

That is a sharp contrast to other big managers, many of whom have had anemic returns.

The weakening United States economy and Wall Street's anemic returns have also been factors in holding down bookings.

While top players like Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners have grown bigger, most venture capital firms are struggling with anemic returns.

Absent rapid business growth or balance sheet tinkering that could allow Citi to reduce its capital, which Vikram S. Pandit, the chief executive, figures won't be done until next year at the earliest, Citi's shareholders look stuck with anemic returns for some time yet.

On a global scale, western economies are awash in cheap investment capital chasing anemic returns.

Oil prices are also rising because investors have been pumping more money into the commodity to compensate for what are perceived to be anemic returns elsewhere, analysts have said.

That anemic return may not get investors to their retirement goals.

Fortunately, our business is celebrities, not, say, groceries, so investors tend to lose perspective on just how anemic our returns are.

But regional economic performance can swing sharply down as well as up: Safeco Northwest had an anemic 3.5percentt return in 1998 because its home turf was hit harder than other areas by Asian economic turmoil.

It was March 2000, tech stocks were on a tear, and Rogers' value-oriented Equity Income Fund had turned in an anemic 3.8% return the previous year, when the S&P 500 hit 21%; investors were fleeing.

But its returns look anemic.