Sentences with phrase «chooses as a benchmark»

SPTS provides low - cost access to a marketlike basket of short - term US Treasurys, tracking the same index that we chose as our benchmark for the segment.

Typically, a single market index best representing the analyzed fund or portfolio is chosen as the benchmark.

Most ARMs allow for rate adjustments once per year, depending on the behavior of the index rate that was chosen as a benchmark for the mortgage.

Once the fixed period is over, the interest rate can go up or down based on a specific index that the lender chooses as a benchmark for the loan.

Not exact matches

RING is the cheapest fund in the segment, and tracks the same cap - weighted index of global gold mining companies that we chose as our segment benchmark.

The number of possible benchmarks that investors or analysts can choose from is extensive, especially for a sector as large and as critical to overall market performance as the financial services sector.

Testing is part of how families choose, but it should be used as a benchmarking tool, not to whip educators and schools with results that reflect a snapshot in time.»

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.

More formally, after we've got the RTI model implemented, well, parents are going to choose to be involved in varying levels, but as a school person I'd encourage parents to be involved as we look at the results of our screening whether we're screening annually, or maybe even three times a year, when we're looking at those academic benchmarks that would indicate how well a youngster is performing in class and then when we're conducting the progress monitoring so that students who are part of more intensive interventions will have their progress monitored, or will conduct those formative assessments to inform us how well that intervention is working.

Putnam County School System (TN) chooses Naiku as comprehensive district assessment solution to implement district created benchmark assessments as well as teacher created formative assessments.

However, there are substantial differences among states, as they still have their own discretion in choosing standards, benchmarks, assessments, implementation strategies and actors that play different roles in policy.

Using 438 borrows (June's number of borrows) as the benchmark, I'd need only 1 out of every 7.5 KU borrowers to choose to buy the book over passing on it because it's not in KU.

For the period from the Fund's inception through 2006, the Investment Adviser chose the S&P 500 Index as the relevant market benchmark.

Starting in mid-December 2006, the Fund's investment mandate changed from investing at least 80 % of its assets in U.S. securities to investing no less than approximately 50 % in U.S. securities, and the Investment Adviser chose the MSCI World Index (Hedged to US$) as the most relevant benchmark for the Fund starting January 1, 2007.

But you should be willing to check in occasionally to see if the funds you've chosen are performing as expected compared with relevant benchmarks.

If a lender chooses to sell your mortgage loan to an investor, the lender will likely use Treasury yields as a benchmark for value.

AAII Model Portfolios Model Mutual Fund and ETF Portfolios: Choosing a Benchmark Isn't Easy A benchmark should follow the same approach as the portfolio being measured, but the most popular benchmarks measure average portfolio perBenchmark Isn't Easy A benchmark should follow the same approach as the portfolio being measured, but the most popular benchmarks measure average portfolio perbenchmark should follow the same approach as the portfolio being measured, but the most popular benchmarks measure average portfolio performance.

There is also a problem of which benchmark is chosen to calculate the active share, as frequently the one chosen by the fund's management does not precisely reflect the actual portfolio.

More importantly, index mutual funds put money into stocks that as a whole track a chosen benchmark.

Because I chose to include the ISEQ as 25 % of my benchmark, and it's performed quite spectacularly every single year.

An Open - ended growth scheme with the objective of long term growth of capital, through a portfolio with a target allocation of 100 % equity by aiming at being as diversified across various industries and or sectors as its chosen benchmark index, S&P BSE 200.

Then there are large & mid cap funds, which choose a pure large cap benchmark such as Sensex.

Our research on the Fundamental Index ® concept, as applied to bonds, underscores the widely held view in the bond community that we should not choose to own more of any security just because there's more of it available to us.10 Figure 9 plots four different Fundamental Index portfolios (weighted on sales, profits, assets and dividends) in investment - grade bonds (green), high - yield bonds (blue) and emerging markets sovereign debt (yellow).11 Most of these have lower volatility and higher return than the cap - weighted benchmark (marked with a red dot).

Further good news: Windmill Animal Hospital was chosen as one of the practices to be used in the AAHA 2014 Benchmark Study looking at practice productivity and management, one of about 100 total practices chosen NATIONALLY.

Most PC enthusiasts recognize the Futuremark name as being a staple tool in PC benchmarking, which is why it is no surprise to PC gamers that Futuremark would choose the PC as its primary platform to develop games on.

Method The period 1967 to 1987 will be used as a baseline to generate the capability benchmark for this process, NB this time period is being arbitrarily chosen from its relation to a relatively flat portion of the GISS global temperature anomaly chart rather than by proper shopfloor assessment criteria.

As benchmarks, states would be able to choose either: One of the three largest small employer plans in the state; one of the three largest state employee health plans; one of the three largest federal employee health plan options; or the largest health maintenance organization plan offered in the state's commercial market.

As a general rule of thumb, you want to choose a company that has at least an «A» (Excellent) financial strength rating with A.M. Best (the benchmark in insurance rating companies).

It is best for people whose investment objective requires long - term growth of capital, in which a portfolio with a 100 % equity - linked portfolio aims at being as diversified across various sectors and industries as its chosen benchmark index, BSE 200.

If a lender chooses to sell your mortgage loan to an investor, the lender will likely use Treasury yields as a benchmark for value.