Sentences with phrase «driven by relative»

By contrast, we contend that private market inefficiencies — and corresponding return premia — are driven by their relative illiquidity, unpredictable pricing, opacity, high transaction costs, and limited numbers of prospective buyers and sellers.

However, currency strength / weakness is driven by relative economic performance not absolute.

This result is primarily driven by the relative tax efficiency of the globally diversified portfolio.

Not exact matches

Guatieri said it's worth noting that while detached housing was what drove the drop in sales, condo sales have remained strong, helped in part by their relative affordability.

For me the main information coming out of CPI inflation data is that consumer demand relative to total production continues to be too weak to drive up prices, something confirmed earlier this week by the August trade numbers, which failed to suggest strong growth in domestic demand.

Four common strategies used by hedge fund managers include: long - short equity, relative value, event driven and global macro.

Much of the venture activity in edtech in the US posits that edtech will look more like SAAS companies in other sectors, high growth driven by a stable low cost of user acquisition relative to life time value.

And this was driven by a menu that got a little expensive after the financial crisis relative to competitive alternatives and a broader guest experience that became a little expected and failed to keep pace with guest expectations that started to evolve much faster than they had in the past and with an improving competitive set, including Red Lobster and LongHorn.

A key element in this shift is China; the value of Chinese exports to Canada tripled over this period and Canadian exports to China, while still small relative to exports to the US, have grown steadily in value driven by commodity exports which have been buoyed by high prices and huge demand in China for key Canadian exports such as minerals (nickel, coking coal, potash, copper and iron ore), pulp and lumber.

Interestingly, this foodie - driven travel trend is being bolstered by the private villa vacation sector, specifically, with many such residences surpassing leading luxe resorts relative to authentic epicurean experiences in addition to accommodations and amenities.

We had relatives who live in Antigua over several times for a meal, they were pleasantly surprised by the location it is neatly tucked away from the busy St Johns but only a 5 min drive to town.

Kustok was driven to the hospital by a family member, but police would not identify the relative or say what led to the shooting.

Eleven years later, the remnants of that once - mighty online access provider now struggle to be relevant in a «net driven by content — words and pictures — and the company finds itself turning to a relative newbie for salvation.

For example, what would it take for people to adopt different approaches to, for example: taking young family members by car to football practice, flying off on holidays abroad, visiting relatives in other countries, or driving to the supermarket because the weekly grocery shopping is bulky and heavy?

There was talk that Raffa was an arsonist and his beating a mob hit; that five gallons of kerosene had been found in his car and had somehow disappeared from the station house; that «every cop in Brooklyn» knows the name of Raffa's assailant but higher - ups refuse to arrest him; that the car containing the combustible evidence was driven away from the scene by Cuomo's detective - bodyguard, who's a relative of the Cuomo family; that the police reports (DD5s) on the case were missing from headquarters; and that the governor was at the scene shortly after the incident and had used state troopers to erase any evidence of his father - in - law's possible criminality.

I'll throw my support behind a power - hungry dame who shamefully told relatives of four people murdered at diplomatic compounds in Benghazi, Libya, that the killers were not terrorists, but ordinary Muslims driven to an uncontrollable rage by a stupid Internet movie that poked fun at the Prophet Mohammed.

On a recent drive down the Gulf Coast, David Wolman was struck by the relative scarcity of freshwater on Earth.

Burris had a hunch that the reabsorption process was driven by hydrodynamic pressurization, which occurs whenever the relative motion of two surfaces causes fluid between them to accelerate in the shape of a triangular wedge.

The fold transactivation of the p21waf1 / cip1 promoter — driven reporter elicited by DDX3 alone or together with Sp1 or Sp3 is presented as fold activation relative to the control transfection and is derived from at lease three independent experiments done in triplicate.

The relative decline in winter wheat acreage from 1987 - 2000 was probably driven more by the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) than by direct climate effects.

Furthermore, the relatively high «sensitivity» from glacial to interglacial is largely driven by the change in the orbit relative to the Sun, which changes the distribution of incident solar energy into the system quite dramatically (more energy is distributed to the higher latitudes in the NH summer, in particular).

Similarly, many studies that attempt to examine the co-variability between Earth's energy budget and temperature (such as in many of the pieces here at RC concerning the Spencer and Lindzen literature) are only as good as the assumptions made about base state of the atmosphere relative to which changes are measured, the «forcing» that is supposedly driving the changes (which are often just things like ENSO, and are irrelevant to radiative - induced changes that will be important for the future), and are limited by short and discontinuous data records.

Greater relative strength can be driven up by greater absolute strength and tested through activities that require moving the body through space — jumps, chin - ups, sprints, and bodyweight movements in sport.

Homan et al. (2013) interpreted this to imply that weaker individuals attempt to compensate for a lack of muscle strength by increasing relative neural drive.

I have the privileged of being able to see my parents and close relatives by planning a weekend to drive home.

One purpose accepted by scholars of charter schools is for them to serve as neighborhood - driven public education laboratories, using their relative freedom from state and national guidelines to experiment pedagogically and ultimately serve as models for district public schools while tailoring instruction to the communities in which they exist.

A wagon - like driving experience The driver sits low relative to the dash, giving the X1 a car - like feel, a notion that is backed by the X1's handling character.

Everything is relative, however, because these cars have a computer that bases Oil Service / Inspection I / Inspection II on how the car is driven and how much fuel is used rather than by standard 5k, 15k service intervals.

That would give the M135i comparable power to the Audi RS3, although straight - line performance is likely to suffer due to the BMW's relative shortage of driven wheels — we can still expect the production version to have a sub-5 second 0 - 62mph time, and performance curtailed by a 155mph limiter.

Power for each is up around 10bhp over their respective Boxster relatives, which drops their respective 0 - 62mph times by a tenth of a second and adds to the intensity of the driving experience.

Thanks to light, responsive steering, the good overall visibility and the raised driving position that crossovers typically feature, the Mazda CX - 5 is a vehicle that you can place with relative confidence on the road, with the slightly restricted rear window size being alleviated somewhat by the reversing camera that comes as standard on all variants bar those with the 2.0 - liter engine Factor in those attributes with the good grip levels and controlled body lean when cornering, and the Mazda CX - 5 ends up being a vehicle that's rather enjoyable to drive, and is surprisingly able to hold onto a line when cornering when you consider the height of the vehicle.

Skoda also also introduced a Connect app that allows owners to monitor the car via a smartphone, when it's driven by a friend, relative or kin.

I will start by saying I was purchasing the vehicle from out of state, and so I had to ask relatives to take time out of their day to drive to the dealership and look at the car for me.

However, the scale is small relative to a large chain, and breakout books by new authors can not be driven on these tiny islands alone.

Even if you know how many books you've sold, it's difficult to know whether you are «successful,» a term that is relative and driven by the size of your advance.

This is important as the relative value of dividend plays is more and more being driven by the level of long - term rates.

I should also note that much of the pullback experienced by Strategic Growth Fund in 2012 was driven by a roughly 7 % lag in our stock holdings relative to the indices we use to hedge, despite the fact that our stock selection approach has significantly outperformed the S&P 500 since the Fund's inception (see the review of Quarterly and Annual Performance on The Funds page for detailed performance data).

The Fund's relative underperformance was primarily driven by the Information Technology, Consumer Discretionary, and Health Care sectors, which was partially offset by outperformance in the Financials and Real Estate sectors.

As Visteon exits chapter 11, the near to medium - term upside will likely be driven by a combination of 1) a couple of imminent, high probability catalyst's that should force the market to assign this company with a much more appropriate valuation on an absolute basis and relative to its peers and 2) various operational and financial enhancements that the company recently undertook while in bankruptcy should continue to yield visible and increasingly positive operating results for the foreseeable future.

I believe the increased after - tax profitability relative to GDP is driven by 4 things: 1.)

Return from company G will be riskier relative to company D (read: lower P / E) as all of its return is expected to come from the market placing appropriate P / E (driven by a collection of external factors) on its growing earnings.

Let's test our conjecture that the mean reversion in fund performance is driven by cycles in factor valuations, which presents a potential opportunity to use factor relative attractiveness to gauge fund relative attractiveness.

If it doesn't arrive through your mailbox, insert itself into the disc drive via levitation, install in 1.7 milliseconds, play perfectly in every way possible and bake you a Victoria sponge cake whilst doing all that, it will be seen as a relative disappointment by some.

A. We're still in the midst of quantifying the relative roles of thermal vs. mechanical (i.e., wave) energy in driving that you've now seen, it's clear that simple melting away at the base of the bluffs followed by topple - failure is a major contributor.

Is it the long - awaited, predicted and scientifically reasonable CO2 fertilization feedback effect on the oceans» vast biomass of CO2 - consuming cyanobacteria, albeit also driven by the (literally) «shit - loads» of nitrogen compounds the human race is also pumping into the oceans — thereby shifting sea surface albedos, reducing evaporation rates and troposphere relative humidities (ringing any bells here, bros)?

Sea level changes can be driven by either variations in the masses or volume of the oceans («eustatic»), or by changes of the sea surface relative to the land («relative»).

The projected growth in natural gas consumption in China is driven by environmental policies, relative cost competiveness of natural gas in the industrial and transportation sectors, and relatively high economic growth.

«It is also evident from these long records that relative velocity is steadily increasing over time, peaking at or near the recent end of the time series record, driven by low and continually changing rates of acceleration.

Those forces and motions are driven by the following: First, the motions of the Earth relative to the Sun: the periodic changes in its elliptical orbit, its rotation about its polar axis, changes in the tilt of that axis, and the precession of that axis.

Both are driven by the global mean temperature level (relative to 1990), regional population and income per capita.»