Sentences with phrase «shorter than the benchmark»

If we expect interest rates to rise, we will create a portfolio with a duration which is shorter than the benchmark's duration.

Not exact matches

Active bond managers try to hold shorter maturities than their benchmark when rates are rising, and longer maturities when rates are falling.

For short - term deposits less than a year, banks are limited to offering as much as 150 percent of the benchmark rate.

In short, the book covers more markets over longer timeframes with a higher level of comparability than previous benchmarking efforts.

It will be rendered at 1080p and will most likely be at a solid 60 fps, and the loading times are apparently way shorter than the wii version, but this is not the game to benchmark the console.

The Telegraph has reported that the new GCSE's, which grade pupils on a 9 -1 system opposed to the traditional A * - G, will make it more difficult for schools to reach national benchmarks, with more than half expected to fall short.

In short, this minimum figure is thousands of dollars less than what some experts estimate, and it should therefore be a reasonable benchmark to identify only the districts with the most needs.

Finally completed last December — more than eight years late — ESSA restores more outright control to states for setting expectations for student achievement and for deciding what happens to schools that fall short of those benchmarks.

The Bentayga is 5141 mm long, 1742 high and 2223 mm wide — bigger in every respect than either the Q7 or the Cayenne, but slightly shorter and a lot lower than a Range Rover Sport long wheelbase, which for now provides the luxury benchmark the Bentley has to beat.

The first is by adjusting maturities — that is, by selecting a portfolio of bonds with shorter or longer terms than the benchmark.

The reality is that, after the Federal Reserve has set and kept its benchmark short term rate to near zero for more than four years, there aren't many banks that offer savings accounts that would let savers earn a decent return for their hard earned money.

A study Barry Feldman and Dhruv Roy, cleraly shows the BXM Index (CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index), a benchmark for an S&P 500 - based covered call strategy, had slightly higher returns and significantly less volatility than the S&P 500 over a time period of almost 16 years, despite the fact that covered calls have a truncated upside in the short term.

That didn't happen as Pimco, guided by an economic view called the «new neutral,» predicted that shorter - term bonds will do better than longer - dated debt out of a belief that investors are overestimating how much the Federal Reserve will increase the benchmark rate.

If interest rates move higher, ETFs benchmarked to indices with longer durations will go down more in value than ETFs benchmarked to indexes that have shorter durations.

The Vanguard STAR fund benchmark was also up 1.4 % in November matching our Aggressive portfolio exactly, however, in down markets we're generally falling less than this total portfolio fund, mostly because of our short positions and longer - duration bond holdings.

It did just fine running our most intensive Basemark web benchmark test, lasting a little longer than the Yoga 920 but calling short of the Spectre x360 13.

No word yet on whether it's actually faster than Apple's A10 in practice, but BGR reported that the Le Pro 3 phone, equipped with a Snapdragon 821 chip, fell just short of the iPhone 7 in a benchmark test.

However, the Fund may invest through short positions in Bitcoin Futures Contracts other than Benchmark Futures Contracts,» the notice explains.

Now I note that you said today that there's been great improvement over a short period of time, and I'm sure there has been, but you know it's interesting to me, and again I will say this because I come from a country myself where there is a disadvantaged community and a lot of government programs et cetera, it's of serious concern the extent of the dramatic inequalities that are still being experienced by these population groups when they represent only, you know, no more than 2 % of the population of a highly developed, industrialised state, and I just, it makes me wonder about things like the effectiveness of the programs, monitoring, benchmarking, what are the standards, is anybody watching this to see whether or not they really are designed to meet the disadvantages that are real in the communities, you know the real history of systemic discrimination, institutional racism?

Account Closed thank you i will do that, im trying to figure out what would be a good benchmark to go against for example, should the property i purchase be 10 to 20 % below market value, should i buy short sales or foreclosures than rehab them refinance them than rent them out etc. something of that sort of line.