Sentences with phrase «more than the benchmark»

When surveyed after Tomorrow's Engineers Week 2014, the impact on perception was particularly striking for girls, as 44 per cent of girls aged 11 to 14 agreed that engineering careers are desirable, 18 per cent more than the benchmark.

Here come the new social - emotional standards to complement Common Core — because nothing says children have feelings more than benchmarks!

I have seen other reviews where the ThinkPad Tablet has benched better than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, but real - world perception counts for more than any benchmark, and I feel like the ThinkPad Tablet is not as fast as the Motorola Xoom or the Acer Iconia Tab A500.

Over the last 10 years, the mutual fund's tracking error has amounted to a mere 0.09 % annually, and since its inception in 1999, the fund has returned 5.15 %, three basis points more than its benchmark index.

Upside Capture Ratio and Downside Capture Ratio - An upside capture ratio > 100 means that mutual fund gains more than benchmark when the market is going up.

However, in both cases the fund returned more than the benchmark in the ten - year period.

Fund management's goal is to have Fund NAV increase more than any benchmarks most of the time, on average, and over the long term.

But while our minds might appreciate the transparency and consistency of a passive approach, our hearts are often more than the benchmark return: We all want to be above average!

The main thing that one needs to check is if the invested fund has fallen more than its benchmark or not??

Not exact matches

The Dow Jones industrial average slid more than 2.5 %, or 620 points, while the benchmark S&P 500 dropped as much as 2 %.

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.

On Oct. 1 we released our fifth annual study, «B2B Content Marketing: 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends — North America,» looking at more than 5,000 marketers in 109 countries.

«We think there's a great combination of policy, there's growth, Europe is very open and the stocks in the (Euro Stoxx 50 benchmark) are representative of global growth more than in the U.S.,» Francesco Garzarelli, co-head of global macro and markets research at Goldman Sachs, told CNBC on Monday at the bank's global strategy conference in London.

Looking at specific stocks, Logitech led the European benchmark, rising more than 15.5 percent, after stronger - than - expected results in its third quarter.

In individual stocks, Swedish retailer H&M saw its shares drop more than 5 percent to the bottom of the European benchmark after a 20 percent fall in quarterly pretax profits from a year ago.

Its shares were close to the top of the European benchmark, up by more than 4.7 percent.

This one issue — benchmarking against peer groups — has been responsible for CEO pay increases more than any other.

For the week, the benchmark slipped 2.6 percent, while the U.K.'s FTSE 100, the German DAX and the French CAC 40 all dropped more than 2.3 percent this week.

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.

Benchmark wheat futures traded in Chicago jumped more than 30 percent from April 25 to July 5 as drought on the northern U.S. Plains ravaged spring varieties.

Sales at stores open for more than a year — a key benchmark for investors — rose 6.3 percent.

Ironically, Gurley's venture capital firm, Benchmark Capital, is an early and actively supportive investor of ride - hailing company Uber, which has raised more than $ 8.2 billion and is valued at over $ 51 billion.

(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 - year Treasury yield topped 3 percent for the first time in more than four years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability of the U.S. economic expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market in bonds is numbered.

The benchmark index for equity volatility rose to more than twice its level the day before, crushing bettors who'd gotten used to years of very low volatility.

As all major US indexes plummeted into correction territory — with the benchmark S&P 500 suffering its worst week in more than two years — share buybacks stood at a standstill as companies sat paralyzed with fear.

In that top tier, ten companies have suffered declines of more than 10 % despite Tuesday snapback — benchmark for a «correction.»

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.

Today, Discord has raised more than $ 150 million in venture capital, counting money Citron had raised for the previous startup, from Silicon Valley's top firms, including Benchmark and Greylock.

Within the first few weeks of the year the Canadian benchmark had shed more than 8 % of its value.

The benchmark rose more than 35 percent year - to - date, with major blue chips contributing most of those gains.

Already - volatile markets swooned after Trump announced the tariffs, with the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index falling more than 1.3 percent that day.

«He's always been a learn - it - all person, to a level that is sometimes maddening, considering how much more I have to learn from him than he does from me,» says Matt Cohler, a venture capitalist at Benchmark and an early Facebook employee who has remained close to Zuckerberg.

Elsewhere, towards the top of the European benchmark was Centrica, up more than 2 percent.

Daniel Kurnos, an analyst at the Benchmark Company, also cited the difficulty of creating a popular dating site, cautioning that it was not an overnight project and one that requires much more than sheer machine learning.

Those benchmarks are the product of more than two years of focusing the company, expanding its product suite for businesses and reining in expenses, Houston said at the time.

Provident ended the day at the top of the European benchmark, up 13 percent, after suffering losses of more than 66 percent earlier in the week on the news of its chief executive Peter Crook's departure.

Dixons Carphone remained at the bottom of the European benchmark, down more than 23 percent, after lowering its full - year profit on tougher market conditions.

While Yellen had hinted recently that further rate hikes were imminent, the Fed chair announced last week that the benchmark rate would hold steady and that future increases would come more slowly than the Fed originally planned.

Provident Financial took over the top of the European benchmark up by more than 22 percent following news that it reorganized its consumer credit unit.

Metso jumped to the top of the European benchmark Wednesday, up more than 7 percent after reporting an operating profit that was up by 28 percent in the first quarter.

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

The Los Angeles - based company has already raised more than $ 100 million of financing from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Benchmark, Institutional Venture Partners, General Catalyst Partners and SV Angel.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average wasn't far behind, and one of the best performances was turned in by the Russell 2000 Index, the benchmark for small - cap equities, which was up by more than 31 percent.

There are other issues to settle, including the explosive lawsuit filed by Benchmark Capital — which owns more than 10 percent of the company and has a board seat held by Matt Cohler — against Kalanick, whom the venture firm helped oust and has been trying to restrain.

U.S. Equity Funds enjoyed a record - breaking surge of fresh money during the second week of March, as investors shrugged off an impending U.S. rate hike and the internal struggles of Trump's administration and chased a rally that saw the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average Index climb more than 400 points in a day.

His statement followed one of the most chaotic sessions for the country's financial markets since the global financial crisis, with stocks on its benchmark Ibovespa falling more than 8 % and the real plunging 7.5 % against the U.S. dollar, the most since 1999, despite the intervention of the central bank of Brazil.

Apart from Benchmark, they are First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Menlo Ventures and Fidelity Investments, which together own more than a quarter of Uber's stock.

An analysis by Fortune estimates that they have more than accomplished their simple but often difficult mandate to beat the S&P 500, the benchmark their pay is tied to over a three year period.

Even though research shows that actively managed mutual funds regularly underperform their benchmarks, Morningstar analysts are 20 times more likely to give a positive rating to a fund rather than a negative one.