Sentences with phrase «better than benchmark»

Yaghi's group and Jeffrey Long's group at UC Berkeley both recently created MOFs that can hold up to 7.5 % of their weight in hydrogen, better than a benchmark for hydrogen storage set by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Any equity manager that generated returns better than the benchmark they are investing in, consistently, over varying periods of time, likely did so by stock picking.

Suppose you hold a fund invested in an asset class that has done poorly even though the manager has fared better than the benchmark.

In popular view, an actively managed fund is expected to do better than the benchmark.

The idea is to perform better than a benchmark index through flexible active management.

Sales are stable right now with Dividend Growth (I sell about 1 copy a day) and the 2014 Best Dividend Stocks continues to roll as my picks are doing as good or better than my benchmark.

Musson's Mackenzie Ivy European Class Series A mutual fund is up 4.7 % year - to - date (as of Nov. 7), almost 10 percentage points better than the benchmark MSCI Europe index in Canadian dollars, according to Morningstar.

If the value is less than 100 it means the fund has performed better than benchmark during bear market (bear market).

You must then check the returns of these schemes over different time horizons and check if they offer consistent returns or at least perform better than the benchmark.

Over a one - year period, most U.K. funds performed better than their benchmarks.

The only time in recent history when many active investors fared much better than their benchmarks was when markets were in upheaval following the market crash of 2008 - 2009.

Their goal is not to do better than their benchmarks but to mirror their performance.

Not exact matches

On the whole, conditions are better than they were when the Bank of Canada left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on March 9.

You should benchmark your business against companies that are doing better than you.

DIY's like to compare against us because we're kind of the benchmark — to say, «I can build it better than Alienware» — that's fine.

When the Federal Reserve Board meets later this month, there's a better than 50 - 50 chance it will raise its benchmark interest rate for the first time in seven years.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average wasn't far behind, and one of the best performances was turned in by the Russell 2000 Index, the benchmark for small - cap equities, which was up by more than 31 percent.

Wall Street is enjoying one of the best quarterly results in recent memory but rather than rally, the main benchmarks have traded mostly lower.

Why the stock market is unimpressed by the best first - quarter results in 24 years Rather than rally on the back of upbeat results, the main equity benchmarks have sulked lowerThe stock market isn't impressed!

«The one big thing that Bogle knows — and explains so well in this slender volume — is that buying and holding a broad benchmark of stocks while keeping fees to a minimum leads to higher long - term returns than constantly trading in a vain attempt to beat the market.

Obviously, clear awareness of the current trend analysis is always better than a stand - alone result; nevertheless, the 50 threshold can be utilized as a simple benchmark to assess corporate activity.

BBP is likely to tilt smaller than our neutral cap - weighted benchmark because the fund equal - weights its holdings, and it dips into micro-caps as well.

Menlo, First Round and Lowercase have attracted less attention than either Benchmark or Kalanick, but could very well be the swing votes in whether the sale is successful.

Since the vast majority of money managers underperform their benchmarks over the long - term after costs, you will by definition do better than most money managers.

In my personal portfolios (and my benchmark Sleepy Portfolio), I have allocated 5 % of the total value to REITs but don't have a good rationale for that specific number (other than it is the minimum allocation to any asset class in the portfolio).

ASIAN SCORECARD: Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.5 percent to 22,319.61 and South Korea's Kospi jumped 1.1 percent to 2,475.64 after Samsung reported better than expected earnings.

The fund's average market cap is higher than our benchmark's, but overall XLY represents the space well at low all - in cost.

To date, the company has raised more than $ 8 billion from a number of investors, including Benchmark and Google Ventures, as well as large financial firms like Goldman Sachs and TPG Growth.

Our research shows, in Figure 1, that Fidelity Transportation allocated more capital to good stocks than its benchmark, the State Street Industrial Select SPDR (XLI).

The much better than expected ADP employment report gave a boost to the market, especially the Nasdaq, but the rally looks increasingly «thin», as only a few huge names carrying the major benchmarks to new highs, with giants like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Tesla have been seeing great inflows in the past week.

Not sure what the benchmark is for saying he's better than Smart or Barnes.

Even if he is a better player than Giroud he's hardly the benchmark for what we need.

If your benchmark for judging a stadium is whether it's better than the old one, then Levi's Stadium largely succeeds.

The study explores different perspectives on paternity leave, including a survey of more than 1,000 fathers from nearly 300 different organizations (primarily well - educated professionals); a benchmarking study of paternity leave policies at leading organizations; and a review of global paternity leave policies and practices, as well as U.S. states that have enacted laws to provide paid parental leave.

By directly comparing the gene expression estimates by these two techniques, using a correlation with TaqMan qRT - PCR as a benchmark, we find RNAseq provides measurements over at least two orders of magnitude greater than the microarray, and thus correlates better with TaqMan values across a large dynamic range.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States — about the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of mentoring both on and off campus, while also gauging the adequacy of existing support at individual schools.

Across the portfolio, CMO schools perform somewhat better in math than in reading, when benchmarked against their local peers on state assessments.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States — about their satisfaction with the amount of time they spent on teaching, the number and level of courses they teach, and how the teaching workload is distributed, among other questions.

Clearly, such a model does a better job of measuring school «effectiveness» than a model that simply provides a snapshot of the percentage of students scoring above a given benchmark.

What better way to define, measure, and benchmark progress than to learn and discuss your challenges with education change - champions that shed light into the why and how they drive revolutionary pedagogy.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States — about tenure policies, paths to promotion, and clarity of procedure around both.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty and leaders at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada — about their satisfaction with the amount of time they spent on service, the nature and impact of the work, and the discretion they had in choosing the projects they served.

In our sample, students in elementary schools perform better than students in secondary schools on state benchmark tests.

She points to international benchmark numbers — the highly - regarded TIMSS study — showing Indiana students performing better than those in other, traditionally high - performing countries.

And these figures from summer 2015 show that pupils in coastal schools are on average achieving 3 % lower results than inland schools, based on the benchmark five good GCSEs including English and maths.

NAEP's benchmarks, including the proficiency standard, evolved out of a process only marginally better than throwing darts at the wall.

For instance, «internationally benchmarked» actually meant no more than that the committees that wrote the Common Core standards looked at the standards in countries that score well on international tests.

They want to create some of the «best schools in the world,» and according to BASIS.ed scores on the PISA exam, students are well on their way to proving that mission — and as BASIS likes to emphasize, they even score better than high - performing students in Shanghai (International Benchmarking, 2016), which is usually one of the highest performing regions on the PISA exam.

When less than 80 % of students have met the benchmark, it is important that efforts be put in place to strengthen core instruction as well as providing supplemental interventions for those students with the greatest difficulty.

Jennifer Bell - Ellwanger, a senior New York City education official, defended the use of that benchmark, saying students who reached Level 2 had a better chance of academic success than those who scored worse on the test.