Octopus Inc. requires that all its investments return at least a 20% profit.

Say you have exactly $2,000 to invest and that your investment will return 10 percent a year.

An investment of 1 in the UK will return 1.133 after one year.

The endowment's investment returned 9.2 percent during the fiscal year.

But in recent years both public and private investment have returned to the street.

Grant was bought out, and Howland asked to have his investment returned.

His initial $250,000 investment returned millions of dollars in royalties.

On average, investments in companies where there was no connection returned 11.7 percent a year before fees, according to the economists' estimates.

The investment of $330 for a 1 percent interest has returned about $70,000.

Such investments often return little more than bank certificates of deposit.