The phrase "appropriate rate of return" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts to refer to the expected or required return on an investment that is considered suitable given the associated risks.
Example: "Investors typically seek an appropriate rate of return that compensates for the level of risk they are willing to take."
Alternatives: "suitable return on investment" or "acceptable rate of return".
"He said, 'That's right.' " Through a spokesman, Mr. Carey called that a misinterpretation, but he actually cited the same factors on setting rates as Mr. Gecan, adding that they needed to provide for an "appropriate rate of return" and not have an adverse effect on credit availability.
"But we have concluded," it continued, "that in spite of its superb editorial content, New York Newsday's opportunities to earn an appropriate rate of return are limited". Newsday executives said that after a 60-day severance period, 700 to 800 of New York and Long Island Newsday's 3,200 employees would lose their jobs.
Using this data, the appraiser will determine the companys intangible and tangible net assets, an appropriate rate of return for them, and will calculate excess earnings in accordance with various accepted methods.
There are serious difficulties involved in determining accurately the value of invested capital and in selecting an appropriate normal rate of return.
In finance, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) [32], [33] is used to determine a theoretically appropriate required rate of return of an asset, if that asset is to be added to an already well-diversified portfolio, given that asset's non-diversifiable risk.
2. Rate-of-Return Assumptions.
We then sum up the annual values for each year of the customer's projected life, add the value of a first-year customer, discount to a present value at a rate of return appropriate for marketing investments, d%, and so obtain the amount of customer equity attributable to that customer.
A higher assumed rate of return (ARR) equals less appropriated funds the Legislature needs to allocate to the pension system.
Because of the high rate of return, I believe they are appropriate for either taxable or tax-sheltered accounts.
Since the nominal exchange rate series is usually nonstationary, and hence is not appropriate for analysis, we converted the series into the rate of return on exchange rate by following logarithmic transformation.
"Return" is in quotation marks, because it is the ex-post average growth rate of earnings with schooling and not, in general, an internal rate of return or a marginal return that is appropriate for evaluating the optimality of educational investment.
