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Minority-Owned Private-Equity Firms Drive Higher Rates of Return

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A study by the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) found that the funds managed by its member firms (79% of which are owned by minorities and 69% of which have women or minorities in at least half of the investment roles) had a median net internal rate of return of 15% from 1998-2011.

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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

Moral hazards can result from a positive feedback loop: for example, a lender insured by the government against loan default may make very risky, high-interest loans to uncreditworthy customers because it will do no worse than break even, and may realize a very high rate of return.

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Seven Ways Leaders Impact Training’s Return on Investment

Kevin Eikenberry

People often talk increasing the return on investment for training, and generally, most people point to others to be responsible for that return, or measure that return.

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Put a Little Air in the Balloon

Great Leadership By Dan

Pins in the form of statements or hard-to-answer questions like “that won’t work here”, “we already tried that”, “it’s too expensive”, “that’s too farfetched”, “yeah, but…”, “did you do a 3 year rate of return analysis?”, and other balloon-popping reactions.

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Cut through the noise to communicate

Persuasive Powerhouse

So here are some thoughts about how you can get a higher rate of return on your efforts than responding to the blah-blah-blah that’s continually calling for your attention: Sleep/rest/get away/get unplugged: When you feel rested and balanced, you will communicate better.

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How to Diversify Your Happiness

Next Level Blog

You don’t get crazy high returns when you invest this way, but you usually avoid catastrophic losses. Over time, the balanced investment approach of asset diversification has proven to yield reasonably predictable rates of return. Not super sexy rates of return, but rates in which you can have some degree of confidence.

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Are College Degree Still Valuable?

The Horizons Tracker

Furthermore, college graduates from racial minority groups tended to enjoy slightly higher returns compared to their white counterparts, though the disparities weren’t as significant as those seen between genders.