Bull markets rarely end when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is
higher than benchmark bond yields.
While the fund has undoubtedly scored on the performance front, it has also managed to keep its risk metrics
lower than the benchmark thereby resulting in an improved risk - reward profile.
A $ 100,000 investment in the fund at inception would have grown to just over $ 1.1 million today, $ 500,000 more
than the benchmark portfolio.
If the value is less than 100 it means the fund has performed better
than benchmark during bear market (bear market).
Now, day to day use is more
important than benchmarks — but benchmarks still serve a purpose in indicating how long a phone might last.
Bull markets rarely end when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is higher
than benchmark bond yields.
Even if the fund performs slightly
worse than the benchmark net of all fees, the manager is touted for their stock picking ability.
None of these items have anything to do with dividends, but I admit that, generally, the portfolios of value investors have a higher dividend yield
than their benchmarks do.
Depending on the goal of the portfolio, it may also be the intention to invest in less volatile
assets than the benchmark is invested in.
If the value is more than 100 it means the fund has performed
better than benchmark during bull market (up market).
But while our minds might appreciate the transparency and consistency of a passive approach, our hearts are often
more than the benchmark return: We all want to be above average!
It tilts
smaller than our benchmark, with less of a value focus, and it makes a lot of sector bets, especially as it heavily underweights financials in favor of industrials, consumer cyclicals, and tech.
You can find the performance figures on any of the big mutual fund sites and you simply want to see if it does better or worse
than the benchmark over say a five or 10 year period.
If we assume that the risk - free rate is a 3 - month US Treasury (10 - year US Treasury is also common) and equal to 1.50 %, the portfolio beta is 1.60 (60 % more systematic risk or
volatility than the benchmark), the benchmark has returned 10 % annualized, and the portfolio return is 20 %, we have:
While CHIQ holds far fewer
names than our benchmark, its mandate is broader, capturing both consumer cyclical and non-cyclical sectors, and including US - listed N - shares, which our benchmark excludes.
Our approach to fund research led us to a fund that backs up its past outperformance by allocating to better
stocks than its benchmark while charging below - average fees.
Eight of the 60/40 SPY / multisector bond fund combinations had a higher seven - year
performance than the benchmark 60/40 portfolio, but in all but one case they experienced larger losses in 2008 and higher volatility.
And on the subject of divestment, John Fullerton, founder and president of the sustainable finance nonprofit Capital Institute, wrote, «There is no denying that the annual financial returns of a portfolio restricted from investing in one of the largest sectors of the economy will indeed behave
differently than the benchmarks against which endowments have traditionally chosen to measure themselves.»
The companion chip is able to dial back background processes when the phone isn't in use, making it last even
longer than the benchmarks say: I routinely had between 30 and 40 percent at the end of a normal day of use with my Mate 10 Pro, measurably better than the Note 8 and the Pixel 2 XL's performance under similar circumstances.
35 % of all airline cards had worse maximum rewards
rates than our benchmark cash back cards, which meant that more than one third of the airline - affiliated credit cards had maximum rewards values less than 2 %.
While we weight user experience more heavily
than benchmarks in our reviews, it's worth mentioning that the S4 processor is a screamer.