Sentences with phrase «against a benchmark as»

The performance of the «core» portion can be compared against a benchmark as an objective indication of the availability of returns, such as the ASX 200 Accumulation index or the S&P 500 Total Return index.

Not exact matches

U.S. government bonds serve as a benchmark against which other bonds are priced — especially the Canadian variety, given the close ties between the two economies.

While cities shouldn't change based solely on Amazon's wishes, many saw the experience as a way to benchmark themselves against other similar - sized cities around the country and see where they might be falling short.

As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.

The good: B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third - party guide for students, and a marketing tool.

On the one hand, B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third - party guide for students, and a marketing tool.

Willy Schlacks told me that he sees an even bigger opportunity in more advanced analytics, such as using predictive analysis to lower maintenance costs, using drones to monitor entire construction sites and aggregating data so that contractors can measure their performance against industry benchmarks.

For example, if Jasper is the worst vice president in the company, then all of the directors will benchmark themselves against Jasper and demand promotions as soon as they reach his low level of competency.»

Websites such as BizBuySell.com offer tools to enable you to conduct quick and easy business valuations by benchmarking the business you want to buy against businesses in the same industry.

This information can be used as a benchmark against your manufacturing costs and can help you to identify trends in particular expense categories»»

Retirement Benefits Group hired a third - party to benchmark their fees against the rest of the industry, something Weir recommends other advisors do as well.

Charting a bearish market backdrop as seasonal headwind (May) kicks off Focus: U.S. dollar takes flight amid persistent financial sector sluggishness, UUP, XLF, AMD, WUBA, YUMCTechnically speaking, the major U.S. benchmarks have reached the worst six months seasonally — May through October — against an already bearish - leaning backdrop, writes Michael Ashbaugh.

Chinese stocks were little moved by their addition to MSCI Inc.'s benchmark indexes, as investors weighed the symbolic importance of inclusion against the limited impact on short - term inflows.

An index is a collection of specific stocks or bonds that the industry uses as a benchmark for investors (like mutual funds) to measure how their performance stacks up against the «overall market segment» performance.

«This is because institutions such as the Future Fund can now use tools that assess an active stock picker not just against the benchmark, but against factors that are easily and cheaply replicable.

As the name implies, the dividend appreciation index fund seeks to track a benchmark against stocks that have a history of increasing dividends over time.

If Benchmark had no problem with the voting agreement for 14 months, as Kalanick alleges, then that could help Kalanick's argument against the need for an injunction.

The index is used as a benchmark; however, you do not actually invest in it, offering balance and protection against the ups and downs in the market.

Rather, the increase in spreads appears to reflect both tightness in the Commonwealth Government bond market (where supply remains limited and demand by foreign investors appears to have increased) and upward pressure on swap rates (one benchmark against which corporate bonds are priced) as companies have sought to lock in fixed - rate borrowings due to expected increases in interest rates.

The legal case brought by Benchmark against Kalanick was not formally ended as part of this deal, but might happen in the near future if the deal finalizes.

Government bonds are measured by the Bloomberg Barclays Government - Related Index, a universe of Treasury bonds used as a benchmark against the market for long - term maturity fixed - income securities.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

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Test Glucose and Psyllium Husk — I regret not testing glucose as this would have provided a great benchmark against which to compare everything else.

I regret not testing glucose as this would have provided a great benchmark against which to compare everything else.

As Woolworths has been the traditional price leader, its prices provide the benchmark for independent grocery pricing, although Metcash checks against Coles» prices as welAs Woolworths has been the traditional price leader, its prices provide the benchmark for independent grocery pricing, although Metcash checks against Coles» prices as welas well.

Represented as a percentage, the OEE number allows you to benchmark your operations against the industry standard, and see where and how to make improvements.

«They have set themselves as this higher - than - high, pious team who set the benchmark for what is right and what is wrong in cricket, when everyone who has played against them knows it's an absolute joke.»

The Senegalese frontman has started the Toffees» past two games against Leicester City and Arsenal and pointed to the 2 - 1 win over the Foxes as the benchmark to return to winning ways and build a run of results.

Le Grand K serves as the benchmark against which all other kilograms are compared.

As they revealed in Nature Genetics, the team benchmarked CERES against genome - scale CRISPR - Cas9 data from 342 cancer cell lines (the largest CRISPR knockout dataset generated in cancer lines to date) curated by the Broad - Novartis Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE).

We are constantly measuring ourselves up — against often unfair benchmarks — and then we get down on ourselves for not overcoming the obstacle we identify as holding us back.

I'll be recapping my progress for the year, benchmarked against last year's goals — as well as sharing my resolutions for 2018 soon, but in the meantime, I'd love to hear from you guys — how did 2017 treat you?

«As a new company, the Awards provided a great way to get to know other people in the industry and to benchmark our concept and progress against others.»

Schools can opt to engage in them for benchmarking against other schools, but this does not result in publically available «leagues tables» such as those associated with the MySchool website information required of Australian schools.

The boards said they were benchmarking their specifications against «the best in the world» and wanted to encourage schools that they were working with Ofqual to make sure specifications were accredited «as soon as possible».

NAPLAN has been used as a benchmark for student performance against national averages since 2008, but just how effective is the test?

In June, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick unveiled the Education Action Agenda — a new education plan designed to raise achievement of all students as measured against global benchmarks and to help prepare them to compete successfully in the global economy by 2020.

However, efforts on this front bump up against an educational paradigm that focuses on standardized testing and graduation rates as the benchmarks for measuring schools.

Despite its lack of a performance pedigree, the Rio was selected as the benchmark against which nine of Roadkill's project vehicles were judged as they navigated an autocross course.

Benchmark the Ford Fusion against comparable products from Toyota and Honda — Ford does, so we might as well, too — and it doesn't quite match: The Fusion is slotted between the Toyota Corolla and the Camry, and between the Honda Civic and Accord, occupying the market territory once held by the Nissan Altima before the Altima was redesigned in 2002 as a much bigger, nicer, pricier car.

Benchmarked against some of the best performance SUVs in the world and tuned on the Nurburgring racetrack in Germany, the new MDX clearly establishes itself as a driver's SUV.

Meanwhile, as Hyundai otherwise points out, it stands to fare well against the direct competitors and it does set a new benchmark — at least until vehicles like the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV and whatever else next comes along.

The Korean automaker is aiming to «define the benchmark» for the mid-sized family sedan segment, which isn't easy when you're going up against such strong sellers as the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry.

Even so, at low engine speeds, the GT - R isn't as responsive as the car Nissan has benchmarked it against, Porsche's 911 Turbo.

As you can see, the Playbook does very well against an array of devices (smartphones and tablets) recently tested — even if the Motorola Xoom and the iPad 2 are well ahead in both benchmarks.

All in all I would say it's a bit overpriced, the specs maybe better but I'm pretty sure the iPad will perform at higher benchmarks as it has against sammy's galaxy s phones.

As you can see, iPad 2 is the current top performer and the tablet against every other tablet on the market will have to be benchmarked.

Today's Getting Going column by Jonathan Clements warns against using the S&P 500 Index as the benchmark (free) for portfolios.

As such, these portfolios will be benchmarked against the S&P 500 Index rather than the S&P / TSX Composite Index (which is a measure of the Canadian stock market).