Sentences with phrase «percent performance of»

Not exact matches

Approximately 60 percent of U.S. actively managed large - cap funds are beating their benchmarks for the year to date, the best performance through April for any year since at least 2009, according to research from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

LONDON, April 12 - Man Group, the world's largest listed hedge fund, reported a 3 percent rise in total assets in the first - quarter after net inflows of $ 4.8 billion more than offset performance losses.

«Twice a year, we recognize 10 percent of our staff, in front of the whole company, for stellar performance over the previous six months.

Those struggles were offset by the performance of its beauty business, including its premium skincare brand SK - II, which reported organic sales growth of 5 percent.

Research by Edwin Locke and Gary Latham found that when people followed these two principles — setting specific and challenging goals — it led to higher performance 90 percent of the time.

In one report published by PeopleFluent in 2015, half of all Millennials surveyed prefer monthly and even more frequent performance reviews (only 9.8 percent surveyed prefer the annual version).

Hoffman cites a staggering figure from a Deloitte study that found only 8 percent of organizations said annual performance reviews were worth the effort they require.

The S&P energy sector was down more than 11 percent in the month of February as the stock market sold off, its worst monthly performance since 2011.

Social media is used by 58 percent of U.S. marketers to drive engagement during events in real time, primarily through posts that highlight aspects of the event such as presentations or performances.

Research by McKinsey revealed 94 percent of surveyed executives were dissatisfied with their company's innovative performance, and 85 percent of global entrepreneurs create businesses on someone else's idea, Amar Bhide, said.

A survey of over 25,800 companies showed that fully 20 percent had dumped dreaded annual performance ratings.

According to new research from Vantage Point Performance and the Sales Management Association, 44 percent of executives surveyed reported that their organizations were ineffective at managing their companies» sales pipeline.

Raising leaders» expectations caused improved performance of approximately 20 percent.

U.S. stocks underperformed emerging markets stocks, which was the only one among the three major regions — U.S., developed markets ex-U.S. and EM — to turn in positive performance as of Thursday, but even emerging markets barely eked out a gain, up about one half of 1 percent.

SBA FLA, which holds roughly 1.3 million shares, or about 0.14 percent of shares outstanding, was concerned about the «general poor relationship between level of compensation and the company's performance,» Senior Officer of Investment Programs & Governance Michael McCauley wrote in an email to CNBC.

But the crises have started affecting its financial performance because of concerns it will result in heightened regulations, and CBA shares are down about 7 percent so far this year while the broader market is up.

In fact, Goleman reported not only that EI - based leadership may be the most important driver of climate but also that climate may account for 20 to 30 percent of organizational performance.

Shares in AMS, which provides the facial recognition technology used in Apple's iPhones, jumped 7 percent after Apple surprised the market with solid iPhone X sales, confounding fears of a much weaker performance.

According to a Bain & Company Survey of 365 companies in Europe, Asia, and North America, 81 percent believe that a company lacking a high - performance culture is doomed to mediocrity.

Carlyle said most of its funds generating performance fees appreciated by 3 percent on average, even as the S&P 500 index slid 1.2 percent in the first three months of 2018, the index's first quarterly fall in 2-1/2 years.

Marcato, which owns 6.4 percent of Buffalo Wild Wings, won three seats on the company's board in June after a sustained campaign criticizing its performance under Chief Executive Sally Smith.

In fact, 58 percent of companies are still using spreadsheets as their primary way to track performance metrics, according to the Workplace Trends study.

Surveys by several different organizations find that, at the 100 - day mark, roughly 60 percent of small business owners approved of Trump's performance or believed his presidency would be good for their companies.

«We found that increasing the size of lunch tables... significantly improved performance by over 10 percent, as measured by peer reviews,» writes Humanyze CEO Ben Waber on re: Work.

If the company had reached its sales goals this year, they would have received bonuses equivalent to 10 percent to 30 percent of their base salaries, depending on the performance of their individual departments.

Typically, fund managers charge a management fee of about 1.5 percent of committed capital and take 20 percent of the fund's profits assuming performance meets a returns hurdle agreed with investors.

Al Habtoor, who founded the Dubai - based group in 1970, was satisfied with the performance of his companies, on track to exceed the targeted 15 percent growth in net profit for 2012.

Small - company performance is strong so far in 2017, with increases in the first three months of 10.4 percent in net profit margin (compared with 8.5 percent for this period in 2016); 11.9 percent in sales (compared with 7.1 percent in 2016); and 15.6 percent in the EBITDA margin (compared with 14.3 percent in 2016).

BOTZ's monthly performance of 15 percent and one - year performance of 66 percent compare favorably to ROBO's 12 percent and 51 percent, respectively.

The fund declined last month, bringing its 2018 performance through March to a loss of 8.6 percent and assets under management to $ 8.2 billion, less than half its 2015 peak.

Based on our experience, this performance improvement can be significant — often in the range of 10 to 30 percent.

Fluorescent lights — used in an estimated 98 percent of commercial buildings — are particularly problematic because of «substropic flicker» which is invisible but causes all sorts of problems including fatigue, impaired visual task performance, distraction, headaches, and eye strain.

Now, over 75 percent of my high - performance team consists of millennials.

A recent winner — a fund whose performance put it in the top quartile in 2013 among portfolios with the same investment objective — had only a 56 percent chance of doing better than average in 2014, barely better than you would expect by random chance.

Yet, the aforementioned Gallup study showed that only 12 percent of employees «strongly agree» that their manager helps them set work priorities, and only 13 percent agree that their manager helps them set performance goals.

Integrated graphics will work fine for about 60 percent of the world, but the technology almost always lacks the performance necessary for gaming.

The reality is that less than one percent of leaders are optimizing their brain - mind connection for extraordinary performance and agile decision making.

Despite poor performance from both companies» shares on Monday, Shopify's stock has surged roughly 100 percent over the course of the past 12 months.

Overall, 43 percent of registered voters said they strongly disapproved of Trump's job performance, more than double the voters who strongly approved (20 percent) of it.

Despite poor performance on Monday, Shopify's stock has surged roughly 100 percent over the course of the past 12 months.

While EQ has been hotly debated over its effectiveness as a predictor of job success (one popular psychologist calls it «overrated»), Travis Bradberry, co-author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0, says «EQ is so critical to success that it accounts for 58 percent of performance in all types of jobs.»

«In 90 percent of cases, very ambitious and clearly - defined objectives will lead to greater performance than vague objectives such as «Do your best,» but don't be like «Do this, do that.»»

«The director of sales at XYZ Co. credits my training program with improving her department's performance by 10 percent over a two - year period.»

In one experiment involving a drawing task, «words of encouragement slightly boosted the performance of strategic optimists, who did 14 percent better.

According to a research paper from the American Psychological Association, setting specific goals led to a higher performance 90 percent of the time for companies studied.

When the company ended the trial and extended the work - from - home option to the rest of its people, performance rose 22 percent.

Reagan enjoyed the best second term market performance of the modern era, witnessing the Dow Jones Industrial Average soar 77 percent to 2235 in January 1989.

But a paper published just last week out of Stanford University said performance increased 13 percent when employees of a Chinese travel agency were allowed to work from home on a trial basis.»

In fact, the BambooHR study found that 18 percent of employees surveyed thought workplace gossip enhanced their overall performance.

A key driver of this «breakaway» performance is China, which is forecast to grow at a slower but more sustainable pace of about 7 1/2 percent in 2014, and 7 percent in 2015.