Sentences with phrase «of other benchmarking»

Released in the first week of December, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report has highlighted issues in education outcomes for Australian students (tested at Year 9), adding to the weight of other benchmarking reports released recently.

That's not the sole reason Black Panther seems poised to trounce box office records this weekend, to say nothing of its other benchmarks, like exceeding the Fandango presales of every other Marvel movie to date, or being one of Twitter's most talked - about movies of 2017 — despite not coming out until 2018.

But when it came to some of our other benchmarks, the Table 2 13's performance showed some serious shortcomings.

It looks like the S & P is much more in tune with the performance of other benchmarks, particularly those in emerging markets and even in hedge funds.

Not exact matches

You have to stay on top of what others in your category or industry are doing and benchmark against them.

And while Macdonald did not look into it, other studies have pointed to another major influence China has had lately on many countries, including Canada: how its high savings rate and mounting foreign currency reserves, much of it invested in benchmark U.S. government debt, have depressed interest rates around the world.

The House and Senate Small Business Committees should assign staffers to benchmark what has been done to reduce the regulatory burden in other countries, with the goal of copying the best initiatives enacted elsewhere.

Everyone knows that Travis is not coming back; still, Benchmark said a lot of nasty things about TK and is now sitting back and watching other people try to convince them that the best thing to do «for all concerned» would be to sell out.

After the conclusion of the internal investigation, which started with sexual harassment investigations and discovered other employee misconduct, Gurley left the board, replaced by Benchmark partner Matt Cohler.

Schroepfer said that Facebook took 3.5 billion Instagram photos, adorned with people's hashtags to describe them, and was able to «produce state of the art results» on the popular ImageNet computer - vision benchmark, used by AI researchers as a gauge of their project's effectiveness compared to others.

On the other end of the benchmark, Swedish packaging company BillerudKorsnas fell 4.7 percent by the end of Friday after a profit warning.

«Peer groups» is a basket of similar or larger companies compared to one company, and «benchmarking» is a decision to pay a CEO at the 50th, 75th or 90th percentile of other CEOs.

This is continued evidence of Benchmark acting in its own best interests contrary to the interests of Uber, its employees and its other shareholders.

At the other end of the European benchmark, Cobham was a top gainer, jumping 10 percent by the close as it reported a pretax profit in 2017, after having registered a loss in the previous year.

The days when something is different is the day that stands out in your mind, that then becomes the benchmark of how you measure other events.

Others see much more dramatic change coming from the launching of the Shanghai benchmark.

Escalating capital costs, occurring simultaneously with the growth of buy - side assets and revenues, indicate that the industry is moving toward leveraging benchmarks and other index products aimed at passive investors.

The Fed is the benchmark of the world; when it moves, others will follow.

The leadership team must establish a time frame to complete the common goal, benchmarks for success and delegate specific tasks and objectives to other members of the management team, and down to front line troops.

Also of interest to metrics - driven managers, a new «How You Compare» section ranks your company page against others in your industry, giving a benchmark for visibility and reach.

By requiring retirement advisers to either meet a «fiduciary» standard or put other safeguards into place, the rule holds financial advisers to the same benchmark already required of doctors and lawyers — that they act in their clients» best interests.

«It strengthens the hand of investors in other price - fixing cases based on benchmarks that were reached in collaborative, or outright collusive, arrangements,» said Lawrence White, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Tools like Close.io are excellent resources for optimizing steps of the process, like leaving pre-recorded voicemails to save time, setting API integrations, cold - calling funnel metrics and benchmarks, complementary emailing and reporting and other methods.

There are all kinds of other complaints in the filing, such as, why didn't Benchmark say anything about being «fraudulently induced» into approving the board seat when it asked Kalanick to resign?

Early backer Benchmark Capital has sued former CEO Kalanick and fought with other investors, some of whom have offered to buy Benchmark out.

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.

This framework considers the Chairman and CEO's self - assessment of performance against commitments in the year, both qualitative and quantitative, and also considers progress against strategic objectives, an analysis of IBM's total performance over a multi-year period, a competitive benchmark analysis, and other relevant information.

The total amount of fees the Company paid F.W. Cook in 2007 was $ 111,207, which included the fees paid for services provided as the independent compensation consultant to the HRC and GNC, reimbursement of F.W. Cook's reasonable travel and business expenses, and a fee of less than $ 5,000 for a survey of long - term incentives which is used for benchmarking for other positions throughout Wells Fargo.

Among other things, S&P is engaged in the business of developing, constructing, compiling, computing and maintaining various equity indices that are recognized worldwide as benchmarks for U.S. stock market performance.

The government will also give LNG Canada and other large emitters a break on carbon taxes, if they can meet strict new benchmarks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and will aggressively pursue electrification of natural gas fields.

Retirement Benefits Group hired a third - party to benchmark their fees against the rest of the industry, something Weir recommends other advisors do as well.

Benchmark Capital will end up selling about $ 900 million of its Uber stock to SoftBank and other buyers, or about 14.5 percent of the venture capital firm's holdings in the company, according to people familiar with the transaction.

The following chart also includes the option to compare the performance of GDX relative to other ETFs and benchmarks or to include indicators such as Bollinger Bands, relative strength, and moving averages.

The total amount of fees the Company paid Cook & Co. in 2011 was $ 163,199, which included the fees paid for services provided as the independent compensation consultant to the HRC and GNC, reimbursement of Cook & Co.'s reasonable travel and business expenses, and a fee of less than $ 5,000 for a survey of long - term incentives which is used for benchmarking for other positions throughout the Company.

The Wall Street Journal chronicled how, despite Kalanick's control of voting shares and board seats, the venture capital firm Benchmark persuaded four other large Uber investors to sign an ultimatum asking the CEO to resign.

«SoftBank and Dragoneer have received indications from Benchmark, Menlo Ventures, and other early investors of their intent to sell shares in the tender offer,» a spokesman for SoftBank wrote.

It stems from the fact that PAF allocates much of its portfolio to South Korea — a country our MSCI benchmark doesn't classify as developed, but which is classified as such by some other indexes and the IMF.

Other Fed officials, however, have been on record as stating that the U.S. economy is strong enough to weather — and indeed should weather — another benchmark rate increase, certainly by the end of this year.

Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

The flight from the U.S. intensified after the Reserve Bank of Australia increased its benchmark interest rate earlier this month, creating an impression among some investors that other big producers of commodities, such as Norway and Canada, would follow suit.

Benchmark argues that it never would have granted Kalanick those three extra seats had it known about his «gross mismanagement and other misconduct at Uber» — which Benchmark claims included «pervasive gender discrimination and sexual harassment,» and the existence of confidential findings (a.k.a..

Life is full of iconic benchmark birthdays, some we gleefully anticipate, others we foolishly dread: Eighteen — Legal adulthood — ...

Since the fund managers of an index fund are simply replicating the performance of a benchmark index, they do not need the services of research analysts and others that assist in the stock selection process.

Entrepreneurs would do well to track their own revenue per employee and benchmark it against other startups of similar size and scale.

It's a challenge for Canadians still struggling to cope with the record amounts of consumer debt they amassed after the 2008 financial crisis because lenders use their prime rate as a benchmark for setting some other short - term rates including variable - rate mortgages and lines of credit.

Others argue that Benchmark's suit has thrown lighter fluid on an already fragile working relationship, and is yet another example of greedy investors looking out for their bottom line instead of the founder's vision.

In our Benchmarking Survey's California family office segment, the most common desire in connecting with other family offices was for the purpose of sharing best practices.

Treasury bonds are considered by most to be free of default risk, so they are the benchmark to which all other types of bonds are compared.

Other funds diverge from the market, by nature of their investment mandates; for example, EUSC follows a Currency Hedged Dividends strategy and obtains a low Fit score compared with our neutral benchmark.

Increases in the big bank prime rates push up the cost of variable - rate mortgages and other loans such as home equity lines of credit that are tied to the benchmark rate.