Sentences with phrase «figure as a benchmark»

Not exact matches

As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.

As you can see in Figure 1.1, the Family Office Benchmark Survey responses varied more than the California family office segment in the size of these investments but the majority was in line with the California group.

Through profiles and interviews of figures such as Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital, Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz of Andreesen Horowitz, and Jenny Lee of GGV Capital, Tren Griffin draws out the fundamental lessons from their ideas and experiences.

As a benchmark, this figure is clearly reasonable.

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, threw down the gauntlet with claims that the performance Tesla Model 3 will be faster than a BMW M3, as he took to social media to disclose benchmark performance figures for the upcoming, all - electric sports saloon.

Its benchmark lap time was almost as close to that of the quicker Porsche 911 Turbo S we figured in 2013 as it was to the slower Bentley Continental GT3 - R tested last year.

The new sedan is also just as fast as the previous car, needing six second to hit 60 mph with rear - wheel - drive and 5.8 clicks to achieve the same benchmark with xDrive, but fuel economy is better based on European - cycle figures.

These figures allow the M2 to hit the 0 -60-mph benchmark in as little at 4.1 seconds.

The above historical performance figures from Morningstar indicate that the fund had a higher volatility (expressed as a standard deviation of returns) and underperformed the S&P 500 ® index, its best - fit benchmark, on a risk - adjusted basis (Sharpe Ratio) in both the three - and five - year trailing periods.

You can use any card you want as a benchmark, so long as you figure out its net value.

This is worse than the 37.7 % loss for the S&P 500 as measured by the Vanguard S&P 500 Index fund VFINX as well as below our other benchmarks, as can be seen in Table 1 and Figure 1.

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).

Figures will be lower or higher depending on the resource base, the extraction technique, etc., but I'll use this as a benchmark.

Basically, we've created a qualitative self - assessment for all small firm lawyers in the country to benchmark their law firm's across a scale to determine whether you're building a practice that will be successful and sustainable for the next 10 years, and we have questions about your finances, and your marketing, and your technology, and your HR practices et cetera, all to figure out whether your building what we think of as a successful firm.

The Xiaomi juggernaut in the budget and mid-range segment in India is unstoppable, and with each offering, the company sets new benchmarks in terms of value for money offering as well as sales figures.

Lenovo's quad - core, Kaby Lake Refresh - powered Yoga 920 cuts a fine figure as it chews up laptop performance benchmarks, while its long - range Cortana microphones, pen support and on - board Dolby Atmos sweeten an already enticing package.

It gets even more interesting as far as the RAM is concerned, with recent GeekBench benchmarks revealing that Apple's iPhone 7 Plus has 3 GB RAM — a figure that started hitting major Android devices back in 2014.

Three years after it set foot in the Indian market, the Xiaomi juggernaut is unstoppable, and with each budget smartphone, the company sets new benchmarks in terms of value for money offering as well as sales figures.

Marylin Schlamkow, managing director at Graduate Career Coach, advises candidates to talk to industry recruitment consultants who will have an idea of the benchmark figure, as well as peers working in the industry.

NOTE: The MLS benchmark price is to track price trends and consumers should be careful not to misinterpret index figures as actual prices.