Franklin Liberty ETF portfolio managers have the opportunity to respond to market events, navigate through various market environments and invest outside the confines
of traditional benchmark index products
Portfolio managers have the flexibility to respond, with discretion, to market events and operate outside the confines
of traditional benchmark indices.
Franklin Liberty ETF portfolio managers have the opportunity to respond to market events, navigate through various market environments and invest outside the confines
of traditional benchmark index products.
An absolute return strategy is independent
of traditional benchmarks such as the S&P 500 Index or the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which gives it the freedom to invest in a wide variety of securities as well as a variety of strategies to hedge specific types of risk.
For investors allocating their fixed - income portfolios, that means it is time to consider investing opportunities outside
of traditional benchmarks.
Not exact matches
Bill Gurley, a partner at
Benchmark Capital and a member
of Uber's board
of directors, has urged caution for the past year, believing late - stage investors have «essentially abandoned
traditional risk analysis» and are pouring money into companies with unsustainable burn rates.
Imagine you were with a
traditional wealth advisor paying 1.5 % — 3 %
of your assets under management in fees each year, only to see your investment portfolio drastically underperform your target
benchmarks.
These factors have resulted in a heightened risk
of capital loss for
traditional index - oriented fixed income strategies and the
benchmarks they follow.
In another reduction
of alternative indexes that use different valuations and business fundamentals to weight companies, Claymore Advisors is seeking to switch an existing exchange - traded fund to a more
traditional market - cap size weighted
benchmark.
As recently as last week, Finance Minister Joe Oliver was still denying the existence
of the first - half recession. We can certainly debate the depth and longevity
of that downturn, but there is no denying that real GDP fell for two consecutive quarters — economists»
traditional (and, until now, not very controversial)
benchmark.
A new study examines six
benchmark indexes that write S&P 500 ® (SPX) index options, comparing their performances with those
of traditional stock, bond and commodity
benchmark indexes.
He measures the attractiveness
of adding anomaly premiums to the
benchmark portfolio by comparing Sharpe ratios, Sortino ratios and performances during recessions
of five portfolios: (1) a
traditional portfolio (TP) that equally weights equity, term and default premiums; (2) an equal weighting
of size, value and momentum premiums (SVM) as a basic anomaly portfolio; (3) a factor portfolio (FP) that equally weights all 10 anomaly premiums; (4) a mixed portfolio (MP) that equally weights all 13 premiums; and, (5) a balanced portfolio (BP) that equally weights TP and FP.
The region
of Provence, in the south
of France, is the
benchmark for
traditional, dry, food - friendly rosé.
Whilst Oxford and Cambridge are not professional teams, they remain a
benchmark for the game through their promotion
of the rugby's
traditional values and ideals.
In the paper, they address the prevalence
of purportedly green products, the problem
of selecting
benchmarks to which they are compared, the limitations
of traditional LCA approaches to assessing green products, and the unintended effects such products have on markets.
The trouble is, most
of the data we currently monitor are
traditional «
benchmarks» such as cost, completion rates, headcount, and hours spent training.
The editors» word choice is a bit hyperbolic — after all, most
of the city's 1.2 million students attend
traditional public schools and always will — but the 10 %
benchmark highlights parents» sense
of urgency about equitable educational opportunities.
The 11 cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania through 2012 have been popular among families seeking alternatives to the
traditional public schools, but their quality has been called into question because most
of their students have been unable to reach state
benchmarks on math and reading tests.
Overall results
of the study indicate that the RLT model is effective in training general educators to implement such interventions as the
Benchmark Strategy Instruction Process, but they also show that «
traditional in - service without any follow - up was not effective staff development, since none
of the control group teachers consistently implemented the [intervention].»
15 %
of Bridge PSL public schools students met reading comprehension
benchmarks for first time, compared to 4 %
of students at
traditional public schools;
Grades are more accurate in that they are based exclusively on students» demonstrated mastery
of state standards and
benchmarks rather than a mixture
of academic performance, extra credit, behavior, and work habits as is often the case in more
traditional grading systems.
For the past three years, that's included a significant shift away from the state's
traditional academic
benchmarks and toward the Common Core, a set
of more difficult standards.
And the government is said to be planning to scrap the
traditional benchmark on which secondary schools in England are measured - the number
of pupils getting five good GCSEs (grades A * to C), including maths and English.
As the new administration meanders past the 100 - day
benchmark, a topic still at the tip
of everyone's tongue is the
traditional school vs. charter school vs. private school voucher debate.
During his 6 years at Edmentum, he has led multiple initiatives to meet the needs
of virtual schools, blended learning environments, and
traditional classrooms, including adaptive learning solutions, assessment building tools, test preparation products, and
benchmarking solutions to name a few.
Equipped with the
traditional flat - plane crankshaft, the engine delivers 570 CV at 9000 rpm and, with an outstanding power output
of 127 CV / litre, sets a new
benchmark not only for the whole Ferrari range and the history
of company, but also for the entire market segment.
Using Ryan or Sullivan as the
benchmark for measuring «success» suggests that the singular goal
of self - publishing is to become one
of the «lucky few» who eventually get picked up by
traditional houses; in other words, it reinforces the idea that self - publishing is merely the means to an end.
With the rapid erosion
of traditional publishing, the
traditional benchmarks of career success have eroded, too.
Economics
of Digital Comics walks the reader through the history and business models
of the modern comics world, starting with the «
traditional» print formats and progressing through the new digital formats, then compares what is necessary to hit revenue
benchmarks in each format.
And
traditional publishing implies a certain
benchmark of competence.
Traditional lending institutions such as banks and credit unions have raised their lending
benchmarks considerably since the mortgage debacle
of the last decade.
The
traditional measurement
of the extent
of active management employed by a mutual fund relies on methods comparing a fund's historical returns to those
of its
benchmark index.
Looking both within and outside
of the
benchmark, the Fund seeks relative value opportunities across
traditional investment - grade and high - yield bond sectors, also including nontraditional asset classes like non-U.S. sovereign and corporate debt, convertibles, and floating - rate loans.
The
traditional benchmark for comparison, as others have mentioned, is the rate
of return (including dividends) from the Standard and Poors 500 Index.
This process results in a
benchmark agnostic, high active share, all - cap portfolio
of 30 - 50 businesses which tends to behave differently from
traditional Emerging Market indices.
Unconstrained to a
traditional benchmark, this Fund is one
of the industry's longest - running absolute return strategies.
The final chart with accompanying statistics compares the fund's
traditional performance measures to those
of its
benchmark ETF:
Even with
traditional stock and bond
benchmarks down, there are plenty
of ETFs that have double - digit returns.
Rather than picking stocks directly or using mutual funds where a manager is trading stocks on behalf
of similarly minded investors,
traditional index funds aim to replicate the returns
of any given
benchmark while aiming to minimize both costs and something called tracking error.
The
traditional method
of assessing performance is to measure the fund against a predetermined
benchmark.
Hartford Funds» Multifactor ETFs seek to outperform
traditional passive
benchmarks while delivering the potential benefits
of lower cost, transparency, and tax efficiency offered within an ETF wrapper.
The company is well - known for using proprietary algorithms to evaluate the creditworthiness
of an applicant, instead
of relying solely on
traditional benchmarks such as credit score and income.
Traditional active management
of equity mutual funds has delivered returns persistently below passive
benchmarks.
Strategic beta refers to a methodology
of index construction that seeks to achieve better risk - adjusted returns compared to
traditional market capitalization weighted
benchmark indices.
Short ProShares ETFs are non-diversified and should lose value when their market indexes or
benchmarks rise — a result that is opposite from
traditional ETFs — and they entail certain risks including risk associated with the use
of derivatives (swap agreements, futures contracts and similar instruments), imperfect
benchmark correlation, leverage and market price variance, all
of which can increase volatility and decrease performance.
Their annual crafts exhibition has become a
benchmark of innovation and quality produced within
traditional craft forms such as ceramics, fibers, basketry, metals, wood, glass, jewelry, papermaking and book arts.
To avoid systemic risks such as climate change, investors will have to demand to go beyond the
traditional definition
of risk as underperforming the
benchmark
«Instead
of saying that you're the best in your field as you would with more
traditional advertising, push out relevant information that shows that you know what you're talking about,» according to a new survey — Am Law 200 Blog
Benchmark Report — from the team at LexBlog.
Some additional distinctions between Liam Brown's «law company» and the
traditional law firm include: (1) performance and reward structures that value output over input; (2) closer alignment with the financial and enterprise objectives
of the consumer; (3) a corporate structure that takes a long - term, client - centric view over profit - per - partner; (4) continuous process improvement; (5) investment in technology; (6) focus on «the right resource for the task»; (6) compressed delivery time; (7) a continuous quest to use technology and process to automate tasks and gather «big data» for
benchmarking, predicting, and quantifying risk; (8) a transparent, 24/7/365 accessible connection with legal consumers; (9) supply chain management expertise; and (10) reduced cost.
Benchmark metrics are readily available for the comparison
of multiple providers Techno - Law — A scenario that contemplates rising corporate investment in automation capabilities throughout the legal services industry, leaving only the high - end services to be delivered by legal professionals and potentially requiring a complete reconstruction
of the
traditional business models in the legal services industry.