Sentences with phrase «as useful benchmarks»

Indexes and averages serve as useful benchmarks against which investors can measure the performance of their own portfolios.

The scores are frequently seen as a useful benchmark for a movie's future success, as well as a reflection on the way it was marketed, with the company's founder, Ed Mintz, breaking down the reactions thusly: «A's generally are good, B's generally are shaky, and C's are terrible.

While many people now have access to internet at a much higher speed than this, it can act as a useful benchmark and conservative target for calculating the capacity of a school connection.

Because of how popular 5/1 ARM mortgages are among homeowners who plan on selling rather than paying off their full mortgage, we set five years as a useful benchmark to gauge the value of refinancing.

This guideline does not mean that climate change is harmless below 2 C, or that it suddenly becomes so catastrophic above 2 C that further efforts at limiting warming are pointless, but like a highway speed limit, it serves as a useful benchmark for where you start to worry about things being really bad.

Not exact matches

As part of the performance management process, using feedback that draws from multiple sources (i.e., 360 ° feedback) can yield useful information to establish a benchmark in terms of behaviours and skills.

While the official goal of the new futures contract is to establish a regional benchmark for more useful pricing of the crude grades prevalent on the Chinese market, analysts see the yuan oil futures as a step toward China seeking wider acceptance of its currency in global trade, including the oil trade, and establishing a petro - yuan that could challenge, in the future, the dominance of the petrodollar.

Nonetheless, Peter Syverson, vice president for research and information services at the Council of Graduate Schools, says the survey is «as good as we've got» and that it provides useful benchmarks.

Even in professions with clear knowledge - or performance - based benchmarks for certification, as in law or medicine, licensure is useful primarily as a way of establishing minimal competence.

While a useful risk measure, he states it «does not predict actual fund returns; within individual benchmarks, it is as likely to correlate positively with performance as it is to correlate negatively.»

Benchmarking, as it's called, is only useful if you compare your performance with an appropriate yardstick.

As a benchmark, a single - index ETF is useful in providing comparisons of returns, but it does not take the fund's volatility or exposures into account.

Market - capitalization based indexes have served a useful purpose as indicators of broad market performance and as benchmarks against which to measure active manager performance.

Only in the business approach is the old Pervasive Principle understood, that any accounting number, book value or reported EPS is useful only insofar as it gives the analyst objective benchmarks, not the truth.

I plan on checking in regularly to your site for updates as it seems like a really useful benchmark.

But it's useful as a benchmark, as a way to learn who the art world thinks the most powerful people in the art world are.

This data product will be useful in future studies, including as a benchmark for comparisons with climate - model simulations that attempt to account for both anthropogenic and natural factors in projections of future climate.

But as the full site is developed into the UK's first earth science park that will use renewable energy from solar, wind, hydro, shallow and deep geothermal sources, it should provide a useful benchmark for understanding how solar can fit in with other technologies for an integrated approach to clean energy.

As an example, taking into account the impact of judges» previous decisions in related cases can provide a useful benchmark, which in turn adds to the information being considered in terms of risk and cost.

Many law firm marketers found this program a helpful benchmark as to what is «best in class» in other firms — useful if you're in a smaller firm, or seeking some ammunition to persuade your own firm to embrace new initiatives.

Each Standard includes Benchmarks to ensure the safety and effectiveness of mentoring relationships, as well as Enhancements that may be promising, innovative and useful for programs.