Sentences with phrase «class was a good year»

The 2010 class was a good year for Republicans with a net gain of six seats over 2004.

Not exact matches

Look back over time, though, and you'll see many instances where the best choice was almost binary — the worst - performing asset class or sector in one year does the best (or close to it) the next.

I grew up in a working class family in South Dakota, married an astonishing woman, and 55 years later we're still together through good news and bad news — including cancer.»

She drew on that experience a few years later when, as a junior at Harvard in 2011, she was taking an engineering class for non-engineers and was tasked with inventing a product that served a social good.

The point is that diversification among asset classes really helped ameliorate the return an equity - only investor would have suffered this year: a loss of 2.7 % is better than a loss of greater than 10 %.

Best of all, this class is only 2.5 hours, so you can easily take the entire class from start to finish before this year's April 18 tax deadline.

The company looked on as other manufacturers» products failed to catch on, then came to market earlier this year with the Apple Watch, which many consider — or expect to be after another iteration — best - in - class.

EY found in a survey that 64 % of companies deemed to be such best in class cases have seen 10 to 30 per cent revenue growth over the past three years.

Those returns were incredibly volatile — a stock might be down 30 % one year and up 50 % the next — but the power of owning a well - diversified portfolio of incredible businesses that churn out real profit, firms such as Coca - Cola, Walt Disney, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson, has rewarded owners far more lucratively than bonds, real estate, cash equivalents, certificates of deposit and money markets, gold and gold coins, silver, art, or most other asset classes.

GREENBLATT: Well you know I taught at Columbia as I mentioned for the last 22 years and so I tell my students that first day of class actually, I tell them that you know I don't think there's a lot of social value in being an investment manager, it's not that I don't think investors who do work set help set prices and allocate capital and all those things, but I just think A, they're not very good at it, and B, it'll get done without you.

For more than 60 years, ECI has been providing best - in - class service and exceptional product quality to its global, blue - chip customer base.

Commodities were the second - best asset class last year because manufacturers and trade are showing improvement.

The cryptocurrency market was absolutely on fire in 2017, delivering what might be the best year for any asset class on record.

It's the best job market in years for grads, with employers expected to hire about 5 percent more from the class of 2016.

And every single year gullible investors fall into the trap of assuming they'll be able to pick and choose the best performing asset classes.

We have benefited from this year's rally in stocks and bonds (our Multi Asset Risk Strategy ETF Model Portfolio has a Sharpe ratio of over 3 this year — and that's with no leverage), but we are managing our risk by incorporating asset classes such as gold through the iShares Gold Trust (IAU); liquid alternatives through the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF (QAI), long - dated Treasuries through the iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)-- each of which diversify our portfolio risk and carry well within an ETF portfolio constryear's rally in stocks and bonds (our Multi Asset Risk Strategy ETF Model Portfolio has a Sharpe ratio of over 3 this year — and that's with no leverage), but we are managing our risk by incorporating asset classes such as gold through the iShares Gold Trust (IAU); liquid alternatives through the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF (QAI), long - dated Treasuries through the iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)-- each of which diversify our portfolio risk and carry well within an ETF portfolio constryear — and that's with no leverage), but we are managing our risk by incorporating asset classes such as gold through the iShares Gold Trust (IAU); liquid alternatives through the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF (QAI), long - dated Treasuries through the iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)-- each of which diversify our portfolio risk and carry well within an ETF portfolio constrYear Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)-- each of which diversify our portfolio risk and carry well within an ETF portfolio construct.

Which is better if you are going to put a ton of money on a card in a short amount of time and want to use the points in the next 2 years for international travel first class at luxury resorts?

Yet, despite the reality of PM Mining Stocks being the best performing asset class by far in the stock world this year, nearly every commercial bank and commercial brokerage fund manager completely avoids the asset class of Precious Metal mining stocks like it is kryptonite, and in fact, most of the time, refuses to even acknowledges the existence of this unique asset class, despite a supposed commitment to diversification.

BHP Billiton points out that, over the next 20 years, China's urban population is likely to increase by almost 250 - million people and the rising middle class will be looking to upgrade to «bigger and better apartments, sitting above more extensive underground car parks, which will demand steel - intensive building and renovation,» she asserts.

Free continuing education classes are offered to students and faculty year - round and the students get hands - on training as well.

There have certainly been periods when the rich, the middle class and the poor all have done well (like the late 1990s), as well as periods when all have done poorly (like the last year).

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been one of the best performing asset classes this year.

Which asset class performs best one year isn't guaranteed to perform best the next year.

Generally, this strategy is good only if you want to take an extended vacation (likely in retirement years) and don't mind taking a couple of classes.

I believe it's fair to say that as we look at a world where very few asset classes globally have produced positive nominal returns year - to - date, and a world where US corporate earnings and economic growth have been tepid at best, increasingly ascending US equity valuations connote incremental capital concentration.

«With the lack of significant new construction in the Columbia area, newer Class A assets like 7021 are well positioned to meet the market's demand in the coming years.»

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Investing only in the top - performing asset class each year would likely generate the best returns, however, such a feat is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to do consistently, even for seasoned investors.

The firm was also a finalist in two other categories: «Robo Advisor Tools — Best in Class,» and a nomination for «Founder of the Year,» which was shared by its co-founding father and son Walter and Jeff Cruttenden.

For the first half of the decade, the freshman class had been more than 100 — well over double the past two years.

Many years ago I was challenged in a Philosophy class in college whether G * d loves something because it is good, or if something is good because G * d loves it.

I am well - educated and have had several years of formal bible classes, even though I am not Christian - yet I loved this CNN article.

I suppose unless I'm already a believer I will need to pay a believer a nice sum of money in order and take a class in order to understand why a covenant that carries the penalty of death if this god is not worshipped is changed because, help me here (well of course unless god can speak for himself - I guess I have to ask those who have studied his word that he gave only once 2000 years ago to another culture), so after this covenant he came down and became a man in order to give people grace so he doesn't kill them if they don't worship him?

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

In my three years there, I received a total of nine demerits (a demerit was given for being a minute or two late for class, for example, or for not making one's bed to the satisfaction of the monitor), but that was not an unusually good record since most students received no demerits at all.

a very thin skinned religious person who basically focuses all of his energy on worshiping on himself... What do you call it when the President disregards the definition of radical islamic muslims... wolf in sheep clothing... The bigger issue at hand is the economy, job creation, national debt, and maintaining a good middle class... all of which over the last 4 years has been failing..

I remember an emphatic pronouncement by the firmly French professor of his own language and literature at TCD, E.J. Arnould (who had lived for many years in Ireland), to the effect that the Irish working class was the best educated and most literate in the whole of Europe.

Be a good little christard and keep off of the Atheist invented machine or maybe register for a grade 5 science class - an education outside of the out dated 2000 year old debunked crap you believe in, would do you good... maybe watch some COSMOS - short and easy to comprehend if you have an open - mind.

Since that first year we were not sure how well the class would go, we did not invest in books for the course.

Ramirez joined assistant editor Morgan Lee and editor - in - chief Mark Galli to discuss why 2017 is such a seminal year for public education, where she stands on the DeVos appointment, and how asking God to help her better use her brain helped her get through stats class.

I first met Jinhua, one of my best friends in the world, at a tuition class more than 15 years ago, after which both of us became as close as sisters, and we now know each other's families as if they were (almost) our own.

When I went to pick her up after her class, he kept praising her and giving me his thumbs up, telling me that she is good as those 5 - 6 years old in his class.

The first time I ever tasted Hot German Potato Salad was as a sophomore in Frau Müller's first - year German class back at good ol' Madison High.

See... there was this thing invented a good long while ago called the 10 Year Class Reunion.

Through its LexJet and Utopia Digital Technologies divisions, S - One explained that it has developed a deep partnership with Michelman to serve the HP Indigo customer base with best - in - class primers for the past 12 years.

Hatco was named Best In Class for the 17th year in a row by Consultants, Dealers and Operators in Foodservice Equipment and Supplies (FE&S) magazine's annual study.

We are making these again this year for our family and also providing the GF dough for our synagogue's Purim Carnival (where many hamantaschen will be made) as well as the recipe for our older daughter's 3rd grade (public Waldorf) class, which is studying Judaism this year, and learning about Purim, in part by making hamantaschen as a school activity.

With over a hundred years of experience in spray drying, Kievit knows every aspect of this technology and is therefore able to deliver best in class ingredients for food applications.

With foodservice spending leaping back to pre-recession levels combined with industry consultants» predictions of a dramatic increase in family dining visits this year, Boston's Restaurant & Sports Bar (Boston's) is announcing the launch of a best - in - class kids program to enhance its kid - friendly environment in the dining room and for guests at home.

Vitamix ® was named the Best in Class beverage blender for the sixth consecutive year by Foodservice Equipment and Supplies (FE&S) magazine.