Managers can demand higher and higher returns in the upturn.

And, like investors, they seek ever higher returns.

But if markets are working well, then returns will be higher only because risk is higher.

Banks geared up dramatically, in a competitive race to generate higher returns.

On the private supply side, higher returns have not called forth more investment in people.

Witness the surge in capital flows to emerging markets as investors chase higher financial returns.

First, short term speculators seeking higher returns, or investors overanxious for safety, drive a currency's value to unsustainable levels.

Now that the global economy is recovering, other assets equities or even revived real estate thus provide higher returns.

But there is also a higher risk of disaster, owing to a seemingly inborn human tendency to extrapolate past returns.

Banks geared up dramatically, in a competitive race to generate higher returns. Haldane describes this as resorting to the roulette wheel.

In fact, in the single minded quest for higher returns, bankers might expose shareholders to excessive risk, without compensating them adequately.

Why was this 20 year experience so unusual, with returns so much higher than at any time in the last century?

Some economists point to imperfect information, which precludes companies from considering the higher returns on investment available in the developing world.

Bolder pensioners, desperate to generate higher returns, may take undue risks for example, investing in junk bonds that could jeopardize their nest eggs.

This is true even for investors who ultimately decide that strategies aimed at generating higher normal and post shock average returns are worth it.

The lesson is that booms have to be managed adeptly, and that financiers have to be supervised in their pursuit of ever higher returns.

Managers take more risks in search of higher returns to justify their pay, which at some point will lead to risk mispricing, and a crisis.

Projected income is at a higher level than in the previous biennium, since investment returns are predicted to be more favourable than in 2004 2005.

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First, China has an understandable interest in diversifying its substantial holdings of foreign exchange reserves away from low yielding US Treasuries to real productive assets with higher returns.

So the crisis might not have reached the scale that it did without financial institutions of all types leveraging themselves to the hilt in pursuit of higher returns.

Returns from land use projects, for example, could also include the potential to create more sustainable rural livelihoods, enable higher and more resilient agricultural yields, and generate rural employment.

Because of low interest rates in the United States, major financial institutions can borrow cheaply in dollars and then chase much higher returns in the major emerging market countries.

Faster growth and returns on public investment yield higher tax revenues, and a 5 to 6 return is more than enough to offset temporary increases in the national debt.

So savers did what one would expect seek higher risk adjusted returns in emerging economies, causing increases in credit and fueling upward pressure on exchange rates and asset prices.

While the Provisional Institutions have made progress in support of technical preparations for returns and returns to municipalities, and remain the leading funder of returns, efforts to revitalize the returns process have been lacking.

The policy of extremely low long term rates is now doing more harm than good by driving lenders and investors to take inappropriate risks in order to achieve higher returns.

Privatization advocates insist, however, that investments in stocks would yield sufficiently higher returns to provide individuals the same retirement income as before, with the surplus used to fill the gap.

While for profit providers have higher administrative costs and larger executive salaries, their main burden relative to not for profit provision is the need to generate returns for their shareholders.

The promise of replicating past returns cannot be the reason, given the inadequacy of those returns.

There have been no returns of expelled and displaced persons nor any efforts to encourage returns.

If the dollar is likely to fall against the euro over the next several years, investments in euro denominated bonds issued by the German or French governments may provide higher safe returns.

A lot more needs to be done to enable further returns and the sustainability of these returns.

Compared to 2007 and 2008, foreign investors holdings in emerging markets are much higher, owing to these countries relative economic strength in recent years and rock bottom returns on developed market financial assets.

It is now broadly recognized in the industry that the probability of achieving higher returns could be enhanced if the investment frontier were expanded and more sophisticated methodologies and technologies were applied appropriately.

He returns to his home.

By the sky that returns .

By the sky that returns .

Returns also continued in Africa.

Some municipalities have impeded returns.

They can see short term returns, but they do not understand very well how those returns are generated.

Unless the American stock market collapses before the end of January, the past decade will have seen it offer returns that are slightly higher than the historical averages and much, much greater than zero.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Also, an investment team specialized in developing countries and in alternative investments would increase the probability of higher investment returns and would also offer a better risk management capability as a result of further diversification.