Sentences with phrase «of traditional benchmarks»

For investors allocating their fixed - income portfolios, that means it is time to consider investing opportunities outside of traditional benchmarks.

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.

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

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.