If you measure the performance of one category of investment
against the benchmark of another, you may not have the best information.
That's the most appropriate way to measure an ETF's
performance against its benchmark index, but it may not be the return investors actually obtain in their own accounts.
Since portfolio risk is often
measured against a benchmark, tracking error is a commonly used metric to gauge how well an investment is performing.
Comparing those
figures against a benchmark — usually pure glucose itself — provides a reference number to gauge how quickly that food will make your blood glucose rise.
Foreign currency reserve assets are held on the balance sheet of the Bank, with the currency allocation, asset allocation and interest rate risk on investments managed
against benchmark targets.
This slim spread of 47 basis point difference in returns is reflected in the underperformance of large cap core funds
against the benchmark by a narrow majority (57.74 %).
While some plan sponsors may worry that CITs have a tracking
error against their benchmarks, it is typically quite small and can sometimes be smaller than the tracking error found in a mutual fund, because CITs are design exclusively for retirement plans, says Jeffrey McConnell, chief investment officer at Graystone Consulting in Purchase, New York.
When the 2013 test results came out last year, NAGB reported the results
against these benchmarks for the first time, finding that 39 percent of students in the twelfth - grade assessment sample met the preparedness standard for math and 38 percent did so for reading.
«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.
E-health systems should be utilised to monitor and enhance continuity of care
against benchmarked standards for both mainstream and ACCHS providers.
Now the Court seems to be additionally tightening the conditions of the latter line so that review of EU
law against the benchmark of international agreements in the EU legal order becomes the exception rather than the rule.
While Mr Laboubi and the union had thus no subjective right under Article 27, the implementing acts of the principle enshrined in Article 27 could thus be
assessed against the benchmark of the concretised principle of Article 27 — leading potentially to a finding of incompatibility and thus inapplicability of Article 1111 - 3 Code du travail.
Second, the Court disregards the suggestion of the Advocate General to see Article 9 (3) Aarhus Convention as a «mixed provision» and to allow review of EU secondary
legislation against the benchmark of the clearly identifiable content of such a provision.
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.
After that came the debut of the Unity Certification program in Malaysia, where 37 participants took part in the Unity Certified Developer Exam, meant to validate user's knowledge of foundational game design and programming skills
against a benchmark from the top game engine in the world.
In the past eight years, more than 60 research groups have sent the results of their
algorithms against the benchmark for Learned - Miller to post on the Labeled Faces site.
The first in an annual series, the report tracks companies» progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris
Agreement against this benchmark.
It is difficult to see ordinary churchgoers and teachers mobilizing in
protest against benchmarking, though tempests in the Hill teapot have begun over less.
The one point I would try to make to Michael is that a momentum mutual fund strategy attempts to consistently pick the best of the professionals (fund managers); this may explain why retail «amateurs» such as me can claim
success against the benchmarks.
Even portfolios that are perfectly indexed
against a benchmark behave differently than the benchmark, even though this difference on a day - to - day, quarter - to - quarter or year - to - year basis may be ever so slight.