Using weighted
averages works well for the first fifteen or sixteen years.
Mean
averages work better with sales pipelines than sales forecasts.
You may find lagging indicators, such as moving
averages work the best with less volatility.
Dollar cost
averaging works best when there's a low transaction cost for making the recurring investments.
Dollar - cost
averaging works best when applied over long periods, ideally throughout your working years.
Sometimes, weighted
averages work well for more than 30 years.
Not exact matches
And Wells Fargo's still near - zero
average deposit cost, even after the interest rate increases in the market, shows just how
well this equation is
working.
Ten were hired and Bahat says, «on
average they've
worked out
better than hires from a traditional hiring process.
Environment takes into account both physical and emotional factors, and the
average number of hours
worked each week; income considers mid-level salary and growth potential; outlook measures potential for employment growth and income growth, as
well as unemployment rates; and stress takes into account 11 different factors including travel, deadlines, and interaction with the public.
Jobs in these countries aren't abundant and the ones that are available to the
average working person don't pay
well.
«My philosophy is that if you take an
average work force and give them a great process, you can accomplish tremendous things and make them feel really
good about what they do,» says Virts Mozer.
They don't want to risk their grade in the class by dividing the
work equally and hoping that Timmy (the guy who is absent from class two days a week on
average and sleeps through class on the other three days) does his part
well, if he remembers to do it at all.
But like any other profession, the individuals in this line of
work vary in their abilities, and some of the
best do have rather impressive batting
averages.
But the truth is that no matter how hard you
work on attracting and hiring the
best of the
best, the collective intelligence of your organization is still just about
average, especially if you have a larger operation.
Persons with doctoral degrees earn an
average of $ 3.4 million during their
working life, while those with professional degrees — mainly doctors and attorneys — do
best at $ 4.4 million.
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While this approach has
worked so far — Edgepoint's four - star Global Portfolio Series fund has a 13 % five - year annualized return, nearly 3 %
better than the category
average, according to Morningstar — it's going to be tested.
Schools receive points based on the following weighted ranking: 33.5 % reputation (higher is
better), 20.5 % classroom experience (student - teacher ratio and cohort diversity), 13 %
average GMAT scores (higher is
better), 13 % tuition (lower is
better), 13 % required
work experience (more is
better) and 7 % program length (shorter is
better).
Suppose this slate of policies
works better than expected and retail prices fall, on
average, by 5 %.
Whether you're in a close - knit office where everyone has been friends for years or you're shyer than the
average Joe, these steps can help you create
good friendships with your
work mates.
Few Canadians earn the maximum CPP amount (basically, only those who
work close to 40 years at an
average wage or
better and don't start drawing before age 65).
Officials at the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services maintain that the new phone system is
working «quite
well» and that the agency's monthly customer - service surveys show an
average 80 percent satisfaction rate, spokesman Russ Knocke said.
All U.S. employees
working an
average of 20 hours per week at any company - operated store — including Teavana, La Boulange, Evolution Fresh and Seattle's
Best Coffee stores — are eligible to choose from more than 40 undergraduate degree programs at ASU, and they will earn full tuition reimbursement for each semester of full - time coursework completed.
He notes that the stylized individual with earnings that track the YMPE closely over an entire
working career are rare and that replacement rates for people who have lifetime
average earnings close to the YMPE often have replacement rates from OAS and CPP
well below 40 %, as a result of fluctuations in their earnings in relation to the YMPE.
Conversely, employees who say they would change jobs to have privacy score lower than the
average employee on all engagement elements, particularly the element «At
work, I have the opportunity to do what I do
best every day.»
The simple truth is that dollar cost
averaging does not
work very
well in certain historical times.
For gauging price momentum in the very short - term (a period of several days), we have found the 5 and 10 - day moving
averages work very
well.
That there is no «one» technique that
works for everyone, but there are acceptable ranges based on tour
averages that will help every golfer play
better.
With Buffett involved, the odds are
better than
average they'll make it
work, said James Angel, a professor at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business.
Moving
averages work really
well in a bull market, but not so much when conditions turn sour.
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Run the numbers both ways to determine your
best option, keeping in mind that unemployment benefits are only a percentage of the income you brought in when you were
working — usually about 60 percent of your
average weekly earnings.
With the
average commute time of nearly an hour each day on top of the eight or more hours spent on location, as
well as other necessities outside of
work hours of looking after kids, housework, maintenance of vehicles, etc., people simply don't have enough time and energy to exercise and sleep regularly, give their
best to their personal relationships, or relax and have fun — that is, until Saturday mercifully arrives.
Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on
average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as
well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for
working and middle - class families.
The five cities we identified as the most affordable location all have something in common: lower population density as
well as lower
average travel time to
work in comparison with the most expensive cities.
Average life expectancy for people in their 20s has increased to 80; men and women in
good health can easily
work until they are 75.
Diversification strategies appeared to have «
worked» during the golden years of the 1980s and 1990s, simply because US stock markets were returning 17 % to 18 % every year on
average during those two decades and Stevie Wonder could have pointed to a bunch of stocks from a newspaper listing the components of the US S&P 500 during that period and likely would have fared very
well.
Indeed, 83 per cent of entrepreneurs worldwide state they have achieved a
good work - life balance, which in practical terms currently equates to an
average of 10.1 hours spent each day on business tasks.
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This research shows that team effectiveness is correlated with
average social sensitivity, which relates to the ability to read and
work with others, as
well as more equal conversation turn - taking in the group.
Different timeframes will certainly
work better (in the past), but there is broad parameter stability across many different moving
average lengths.
Using data on hours
worked and earnings, one can craft a labor income proxy that is up 1.8 percent,
well below its 20 - year
average of 3 percent.
Even though investing in the
best decile of a composite of value factors
averages out to have excess returns of almost four percent annualized, when looking at shorter investment periods it only
works a little
better than two out of three years on a one - year basis.
Given the consistently
good news we've seen from the housing market, it can be easy to forget just how much damage the bursting of the real estate bubble has
wrought on the economy and the lives of
average people across the country.
A subscriber asked whether fresh end - of - quarter yields might
work better than quarterly
average yields.
To make matters worse, the
average congregation is more worried about overpaying the staff than underpaying them which leads to the church being crippled spiritually by pastoral changes as the pastor moves to a
better deal or leaves the ministry or
works multiple jobs just to support his family.
Tebow may be a heck of an athlete and people don't often question his
work ethic, but he's a below -
average quaterback at
best.
I used to be a repub till congress was taken over by the tea party and Romney as our candidate.I can not support a man who is a draft dodger and a tax evader.The repub congress has done nothing for vets, nothing for the middleclass.All of the
good repubs have gone or have been forced out by the extremists that care nothing for the
average joe or veterans like myself.Until we get real candidates that care for the middleclass and vets I will not vote for the repubs.Honor and respect, and caring for this nation is what the repubs used to stand for, now we have wackjobs from the tea party holding america hostage and thats as un patriotic as it gets, it is hurting many americans, our economy and soldiers who are looking for
work.
Funny I never thought of Jesus as having a hercules style body... Just
average build... He did
work as a capenter and the carpenters I know have
good muscle tone... by are not body builder status, Hercules built to excess... They are just like a
average farmer, strong and even in muscle tone... Jesus's whole life was about being humble and coming from the low end of the society... he was born with the animals in a very humble place... I do not see him as a super strong human... but then being the son of God, he would have had super powers if he wanted them... he just did not need them...
Similarly in country places the pastor is
better educated and more enlightened than the
average members of his flock, and becomes a leader in
works of beneficence.