Sentences with phrase «indicator of a good fund»

i would agree that consistent performance is an indicator of a good fund.

Indicators of a good fund include an above average 5 - 7 year return and a high fund rating.

Not exact matches

With today's employees, as with mutual funds, «past performance is not the best indicator of future success,» says Rajeev Vasudeva, CEO of the Egon Zehnder executive recruiting firm.

«Lenders must have regard to their own cost of funding from savers, and also from wholesale sources (where LIBOR [London Inter-Bank Offered Rate] is a more relevant indicator of cost than the bank base rate), and the level of margin they are seeking to achieve, as well as their view of how rates may move in the future and how this may affect future pricing.»

To catch underrecognized work, funders should instead use citation windows considerably longer than the customary 2 or 3 years as well as «a wider portfolio of indicators,» the authors advise.

NIH examines indicators such as the track record of graduates in academic medicine positions, time to graduation, overall student happiness, how well the program integrates the medical and scientific training, and most importantly, the quality of the scientists and science available to the MD / PhD students; NIH manifests disapproval or approval of a program by decreasing, increasing, or maintaining the number of funded trainee positions at that institution.

According to the survey Mirror, Mirror conducted by the Commonwealth Fund, Great Britain is the country with the best health care system in the list of wealthy and advanced countries, while the USA, spending large amounts of money on health services, scores low on most of the indicators.

As a result of commitments made under federal funding or prompting from community demands as well as courts - a number of districts are engaged with their local teachers unions over new evaluation systems that include student performance as an indicator.

Matt's take: Distribution yield measures what a fund just paid out to investors, so it's generally a good indicator of current income.

Matt's take: Like the distribution yield, 12 - month yield is a good indicator of the income being paid out by a fund.

While past performance is generally a good indicator of future performance, nobody can guarantee that a particular mutual fund will provide a certain level of return on the investment.

Matt's take: YTM is a good indicator of what the bonds in the fund are yielding at a current point in time.

In this way YTM can be a good indicator of where the fund distribution may be headed (see below).

The general consensus is that the single best indicator of a fund's future performance is the its expense ratio (source).

The other session that had people talking was this morning's session where well - known hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller and Baupost Group's Seth Klarman (also a hedge fund manager) told the executives that many people confuse the performance of the stock market with the health of our economy, but that is not necessarily a great indicator.

Funding agencies could well take note that a good indicator of the worth of a piece of research is the use that is put with its data by other researchers.

For smaller scale projects a form that defines Scope, Signing Authorization of the project via client / lead dept. head / lawyer, out of scope parameters plus project deliverables, funding source with key performance indicators, is a good start.

The Trust Indicators set standards for media outlets and allow newspeople to commit to good faith reporting that's worth buying,» said Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, whose philanthropic fund was an early supporter of the Trust Project.

Although proponents of defunding Planned Parenthood argue that other providers — namely health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs)-- would easily be able to fill the overwhelming hole torn in the safety net, evidence suggests otherwise.1 Planned Parenthood health centers consistently perform better than other types of publicly funded family planning providers on key indicators of accessibility and quality of contraceptive care.2 Plus, Planned Parenthood serves a greater share of women who obtain contraceptive care from safety - net health centers.3 And in some communities and for many women, Planned Parenthood is the predominant source of publicly funded contraceptive care.4 It is simply unrealistic to expect other providers to readily step up and restore the gravely diminished capacity of the family planning safety net were Planned Parenthood defunded.