Low interest rates hurt the financial position of institutional investors that need to earn a certain minimum return, such as pension plans that have made pension promises based on much higher expected rates of return than they can earn in the current environment.
"We hold these stocks because they have a higher expected rate of return," Mr. Fogdall explained.
This benefit was seen despite a slightly higher expected rate of progression to active TB disease with the Intervention in the base-case (incremental increase of 3.8 active TB disease cases per 1000 referrals).
However, such studies should be designed over a period of 10 years or more and because of a high expected rate of relapsing patients and drop-outs they would require a very large sample size at baseline.
More specifically, the results from a regression analysis showed a higher expected rate of school enrolment and progression from grades 5, 7, and 10 for children whose fathers were migrants.
Marriage between first cousins doubles the risk of children being born with birth defects, according to a study seeking answers to the higher than expected rates of deaths and congenital abnormalities in the babies of the Pakistani community.
Recent reports support higher than expected rates of binge alcohol consumption among women and girls.
But the growth ambitions are much higher than expected rates in more developed economies - latest figures show the US economy growing at an annual rate of 3.5%.
Higher than expected rates of false-positivity have been reported, as reflected in lower positive predictive values in areas of low HIV prevalence [23, 27].
As it happened, we found higher than expected rates of malaria among older children who were ITN users.
