Evernote, an application that collects and saves notes, is a close second, followed by Dropbox, which has a payout rate of 5-to-1.
The Treasury has proposed a payout rate of 5 percent of assets, which is the rate required of private foundations, but the American Bar Association and others are challenging that recommendation, seeking a lower rate.
Executives at the highest echelons of banks can hardly have failed to notice that they were selling insurance with a payout rate of below 20% – a sure sign of a warped market.
Charles Aulino, a first vice president for personal financial planning at Glenmede Trust, a trust company in Philadelphia, also questions the ability of an "all weather" payout rate of 4percentt or more to work for either current or future beneficiaries.
"We saved the nest eggs for the rainy days, and now it's raining," said Morton Schapiro, the president of Williams College, who has persuaded his board to increase the payout rate of the college's $1.3 billion endowment.
The amount of income from a lifetime income annuity depends on the holder's sex, age and various options chosen, but the company offered this example: A 65-year-old man can begin a stream of income with a payout rate of more than 8.3percentt guaranteed for life.
A discounted cash flow (DCF) model was used to generate economic yardsticks, such as net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR) and payout time for comparing the economic outcomes in those five emerging shale plays.
And at the current rate of growth, streaming service payouts will approach what musicians made off CD sales in the peak of that bygone era.
The next 10 years aren't about team championships, but financial benchmarks linked to A-Rod's rate of slugging, with a Monopoly game payout for eclipsing history: pass Barry Bonds, collect $6 million.
I also think the historical growth rate of dividends is depressed because the payout ratio has gone down.
