Sentences with phrase «higher than that benchmark»

If your income is higher than that benchmark, you can claim a reduced amount of the credit.

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

Bull markets rarely end when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is higher than benchmark bond yields.

Bull markets rarely end when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is higher than benchmark bond yields.

Its 3 year returns are 22.32 % which is higher than the benchmark & category by 11 % and 9 % respectively.

Payout ratio is considerably higher than benchmark / peers / broader market / analyst expectations.

So on one hand, you don't need to put in 10,000 hours to become a good investor capable of earning decent returns (a bit higher than benchmark indexes) on your investments.

Based on our data, renters insurance premiums in Longview are 18 % higher than the benchmark in the state.

We tend to weight our own experiences using a device much higher than benchmark scores, but for those interested, in the Quadrant benchmark test, the One X performed incredibly well, scoring an average of about 5,000, which is the highest score we've seen other than the One S, which posted near identical results.

Not exact matches

It's also just 0.5 % higher than the equity benchmark's current level.

The benchmark 10 - year yield hit a high of 2.626 % on March 13, briefly ticking above the 2.60 % threshold that the bond - market veteran Bill Gross had said was «much more important than Dow 20,000.»

The benchmark 10 - year Treasury note fell from a more than four - year high to below 3 percent after the European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged and reaffirmed its stimulative monetary policy stance.

Although some states have set higher benchmarks than federal law requires, minimum wage in the US is $ 7.25 an hour.

Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, rose to $ 70.37 on Monday, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude reached $ 64.89 on Tuesday, both hitting more than three - year highs.

On Monday, the European benchmark closed above $ 64 a barrel, more than a two - year high.

Prices of WTI crude oil, the benchmark grade for North America, have averaged $ 97.40 a barrel over the last year, 15 % higher than the five year average.

Premiums for insuring our benchmark rental property are 3.7 % higher than the state average.

The only justification for an ETF to charge higher fees than its passively managed ETF benchmark is «active» management that leads to out - performance.

Whether the contract's buyer receives or loses money is based on whether the benchmark price — determined by a 4 p.m. ET auction held by Gemini — is higher or lower than the price paid for the contract.

Even though Alberta Bitumen is cheaper than most benchmarks, given the need for it to be mixed with higher - quality, more - expensive lighter crude to be transported from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf, its drop into single digits is no less remarkable.

The only justification for any ETF to charge higher fees than its passively managed ETF benchmark is «active» management that leads to out - performance.

Our benchmark 30 year old driver's rates were $ 930 for a 12 - month policy and 37 % higher than the state average.

«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.

In short, the book covers more markets over longer timeframes with a higher level of comparability than previous benchmarking efforts.

The MSCI and Standard & Poor's benchmarks for these frontier markets and their underlying countries are vastly different where some countries have a significantly higher weight in the benchmark than others.

Let's look at the costs of an actively managed portfolio designed by a financial advisor to provide higher returns with lower volatility than the corresponding benchmark.

Under the rules, a buyer paying more than 20 per cent down on their home purchase must prove they can carry their monthly payments at either their contract rate plus two per cent, or at the Bank of Canada's benchmark rate — whichever is higher.

The benchmark 10 - yr yield, for instance, finished at 2.95 % on Thursday — which is about eight basis points below the more than four - year high it hit last week.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

a) investing their own money alongside you, so your interests are aligned b) a stake in the company they work at i.e. it is a partnership or employee - owned c) a proven ability to outperform an index over the long - term (at least 10 years) d) reasonable charges — preferably no more than a 1 % management fee and no performance fee e) a concentrated, high conviction portfolio i.e. they do not just hug their benchmark f) a low - asset - turnover ratio i.e. they have a long - term investment horizon and rarely sell investments g) a proven ability to preserve capital during the bad times h) a stable team who have worked together for a number of years.

Market contacts have reported that it also reflects the relatively high level of swap rates — a common benchmark for price - makers» funding costs — for reasons related more to the demand for funds than to credit concerns.

The only justification for a mutual fund to charge higher fees than its ETF benchmark is «active» management that leads to out - performance.

The leading non-US benchmark for oil prices reached its highest level for more than two years, as Turkey threatened to disrupt supplies from Kurdish oilfields in northern Iraq in response to the autonomous Kurdish region's referendum on independence.

Starting Oct. 17, all buyers with high - ratio mortgages — less than a 20 per cent down payment — must qualify based on the five - year benchmark posted rate, even if they have negotiated a lower five - year fixed - ate term.

While not exactly hitting the Federal Reserve's revered 2.0 % annual inflation target, it was apparently close enough to create more jitters in the bond market, with the yield on the U.S. Treasury's benchmark 10 - year note immediately climbing seven basis points to 2.91 %, its highest level in more than four years.

We looked at the benchmark weights pre - and post-downgrades — for example, autos went from less than 3 % to nearly 7 %, there was not much of a high - yield financials universe and energy endured some significant downgrades to post some meaningful growth.

To what degree, for example, is a portfolio cheaper than its benchmark, or more tilted toward high quality stocks?

Our internal credit standards are higher than those found in the benchmark indices.

We can argue about what an appropriate index is to benchmark returns here, but in Q1 it really didn't matter as a mixture of hype and hope pushed company share prices higher than either index.

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.

The nine benchmarks also accept the contemporary understanding of time, the role of unpredictability (novelty), persuasion as a higher form of power than coercion, and the priority of evolution and change (instability) over equilibrium or stasis.

«They have set themselves as this higher - than - high, pious team who set the benchmark for what is right and what is wrong in cricket, when everyone who has played against them knows it's an absolute joke.»

When the dust settles, 13,660 kids will be kicked back into the regular CPS system, where less than 9 percent of all high students meet college readiness benchmarks on the ACT.

This is a much higher benchmark than simple «tariff - free access».

The level of PFOA in affected areas has been much higher than the new benchmark, leading communities to establish alternate water supplies.

The team plans on doing benchmarks on the Jaguar supercomputer, which has a much higher theoretical bandwidth than either the Franklin or Chinook systems.

Throwers are, on an average, heavier than 220 pounds, a benchmark normally used to determine whether or not an athlete should perform high - intensity plyometric exercises.

TIMSS shows that Australian Year 4 students with a high sense of school belonging scored around 40 score points higher than those with little sense of school belonging, while Australian Year 8s with a high sense of school belonging scored around 70 score points higher, this being equivalent to almost one TIMSS benchmark, than those with little sense of school belonging.

While many people now have access to internet at a much higher speed than this, it can act as a useful benchmark and conservative target for calculating the capacity of a school connection.

For example, the ACT reports that just 46 percent of high school graduates taking its college entrance exams in 2012 met college - readiness benchmarks in math; fewer than one in three did so in science.