Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• AVERAGE ANNUAL RETURN
  
  A calculation that converts a cumulative total return into an annualized figure. For example, an investment that has a cumulative return of 30% over three years--meaning it has gained 30% for the entire three-year period--has an annualized gain (average annual return) of 9.1%.
  
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