The broad market last year returned little more than investors could earn in a savings account.

At the same time, though, new investors could earn greater returns from higher rates.

Including dividends, investors who bought in the public offering earned about 15 percent a year for the time they owned the stock.

So far, he said, "investors have earned 20 percent compounded annually since I took control."

She expects that if things continue the way they have been going, the investors will earn all their money back in January.

It is a rate of return that investors could earn in financial markets.

That investor would have earned 10.2 percent a year, on average, for the decade through the end of July.

The person who supplied the documents confirmed that the investor earned 15 percent a year.

But the typical investor in Nasdaq earned only 4.3 percent over this period.

Foreign investors the world over have earned a reputation for a lack of astuteness.