Alpha measures the difference between a fund's actual return and its expected return, or beta, over three years.

Soriano stated he felt healthy enough to return in a few days, but made his actual return on August 28, 2007.

To prove those charges," announced the spirit, "I shall leave proof of my actual return.

So the actual return flows available would not exceed 10% of primary water supply of the river.

Finance: The probability that an actual return on an investment will be lower than the expected return.

For each period, subtracting the expected return from the actual return results in the difference from the mean.

The actual return earned by this sector in the previous 12 months was 31 per cent.

But the actual return of the cars may be the least of the county's problems.

This gives an actual return for holding the CD for 90 days of £2,406.41.

To be sure, the professors did not take transaction costs into account, so an investor's actual returns in following this strategy would have been lower.