Those tailwinds include Exelon's progress on raising return-on-equity ratios across its utilities and regulatory efforts to boost the economics of its nuclear power producing unit ExGen, which is already a free cash flow-producing "machine," they said.
The Guaranteed Retirement Plan would redesign the American retirement system by pooling investments, lowering fees, reducing risk and — best of all — raising returns on the $14.2 trillion in 401 k)s and IRA assets.
Industry-wide conditions of a more stable pricing structure and wider margins have raised return on equity to just over 9%.
Improving performance - we estimate that actions taken to date and delivery of the remaining cost cutting programme can raise return on equity from under 4% in 2012 to about 14% in 2014.
It has long owned insurance companies, and its leaders understand actuarial tables as well as how to utilize complex financial instruments and sophisticated tax opportunities to reduce risk, and raise returns, on deals that no one else could make.
Running plants longer is one way to recoup the extra cost and raise returns on investment over the full life of the plant.
The answer there is to raise returns on saving, through financial and corporate restructuring, greater competition and so forth.
Allowing a 30percentt write-off in the first year lowers costs and raises returns on new investment.
Mr. Citron, Orange County treasurer for 24 years, had sought to raise returns on the county's investments because a taxpayer revolt was putting a lid on property taxes.
However, other sectors abound with sales that are specifically and demonstrably ethical, such as the £8.9bn that went on ethical investments, £1.9bn on organics and £458m on Fairtrade, which raises returns for Third-World farmers.
[C1.] Hedge Funds Expand the Limits on Ways to Raise Returns As some 8,000 hedge funds look for ways to increase returns on the billions of dollars they have to invest, they are pushing further into uncharted territories ranging from class-action lawsuits to collectibles like coins and art.
