22-06-2005 20:59									#1
	Quick English question Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

I'm making portfolio performance reports for English clients. Which phrasing is the best to express the following idea: "return (in %) of the current year (starting Jan. 1st)".

Should I say:

a)current year yield
b)return of the current year
c)current year return
d)something else

	22-06-2005 21:02									#2
	Full PM-box? Change here!

"Year-to-date return" or similar.

	22-06-2005 21:02									#3
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

Seeing as corporate years do not necessarily coincide with calender years I would say something like;

For the year starting January 1st the current return is x%.

I don't know about using yield if it is a return as I don't think the 2 are interchangable. As a return generally refers to a "payback" ala ROI. Where as a yeild is more like a "payout" ala dividend.

	22-06-2005 21:13									#4
	Inflate your Upload Space

Year to date over fiscal year.

Year to date is from January to December, and Fiscal year is from May to April.

	22-06-2005 21:18									#5
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

Good call Ben

	22-06-2005 21:18									#6
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Fiscal year is whatever the organization decides it's going to be.

	22-06-2005 21:20									#7
	Tired of ads?

For laypeople, YTD is likely assumed to be Jan. 1 onward, but you may want to explicitly clarify that.

	22-06-2005 21:30									#8
	Tired of ads?

"you'll get your money once I have it."

	22-06-2005 21:48									#9
	Get a bigger avatar today!

We're using calendar years for this report, so I take it that "year-to-date return" is fine?

Thanks for the answers

	22-06-2005 22:05									#10
	Full PM-box? Change here!

Flemish what???

	22-06-2005 22:10									#11
	Increase Your PM Length

Not sure about the spelling though

	22-06-2005 22:13									#12
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

The spelling is okay, the meaning is not so nice though...

	22-06-2005 22:21									#13
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

Yeah, I've actually run into the difference between those terms in some of my statistics. One of my questions is if my data gets distorted because one set uses fiscal year, and another the year to date.

	23-06-2005 00:06									#14
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

So, BK, your job involves running into flikkers?

	23-06-2005 00:13									#15
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

OB: Yes, that's fine. Can be shortened to "YTD return," depending on how formal the document is.

Good luck.

	23-06-2005 00:40									#16
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

No, it wasn't a job. This was research on my own initiative.

Sorting out reports on Canadian MSP statements. The difference in the two filing periods, means the statistics overlap, and cause me all sorts of problems.

	23-06-2005 00:43									#17
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

quote: Originally posted by Oncle Boris So, BK, your job involves running into flikkers?

His religion forbids that