Active bond managers try to hold shorter maturities
than their benchmark when rates are rising, and longer maturities when rates are falling.
Upside Capture Ratio and Downside Capture Ratio - An upside capture ratio > 100 means that mutual fund gains more
than benchmark when the market is going up.
Not exact matches
On the whole, conditions are better
than they were
when the Bank of Canada left its
benchmark interest rate unchanged on March 9.
Fellow business owners may serve as a great
benchmark, but it's easy to get frustrated
when you see others moving forward at a different pace
than you are.
When the Federal Reserve Board meets later this month, there's a better
than 50 - 50 chance it will raise its
benchmark interest rate for the first time in seven years.
A full six pages of
Benchmark's lawsuit were dedicated to describing Kalanick's role in the Otto acquisition and
Benchmark's obliviousness to alleged wrongdoing; I noted
when the lawsuit was filed that it, more
than any of Uber's scandals, had the potential to be Kalanick's doom, and apparently
Benchmark agrees (although, of course, one should question why Gurley, then an Uber board member, apparently declined to do more digging on a $ 680 million acquisition).
That view gained momentum in late February
when the
benchmark yield climbed past 2.9 % — more
than twice its historic lows in July 2016 — following a Congressional question - and - answer session with the new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
Bull markets rarely end
when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is higher
than benchmark bond yields.
«They have set themselves as this higher -
than - high, pious team who set the
benchmark for what is right and what is wrong in cricket,
when everyone who has played against them knows it's an absolute joke.»
When the dust settles, 13,660 kids will be kicked back into the regular CPS system, where less
than 9 percent of all high students meet college readiness
benchmarks on the ACT.
They used the location of peak intensity of cyclones as a
benchmark because it is a more consistent metric
than statistics such as storm duration: The duration can be harder to estimate because of difficulties in establishing precisely
when a storm should first be considered a tropical cyclone.
The previous
benchmark for a large class was set last year,
when 322 invitees were announced — less
than half the number announced on Wednesday.
When surveyed after Tomorrow's Engineers Week 2014, the impact on perception was particularly striking for girls, as 44 per cent of girls aged 11 to 14 agreed that engineering careers are desirable, 18 per cent more
than the
benchmark.
Across the portfolio, CMO schools perform somewhat better in math
than in reading,
when benchmarked against their local peers on state assessments.
«
When first - graders read from text with at least a moderate amount of consistent linguistic information, more reach the end - of - the - year
benchmark than students who read text with less consistent information but more of it.»
First — test scores fell under Covington and weeks before he took the job in Michigan the state confirmed that test scores were lower and that we met FEWER
benchmarks towards accreditation
than when he started.
That means schools will receive an «A» rating only
when their students are demonstrating «mastery» (i.e., level of college - and career - readiness) on state assessments, graduating greater
than 90 percent of their students, and have an average ACT score at the college - ready
benchmark (e.g., 21).
Since then, more
than 60 percent have achieved this
benchmark every year until 2013 - 14,
when scores dipped sharply after Wyoming made the state test more rigorous.
When less
than 80 % of students have met the
benchmark, it is important that efforts be put in place to strengthen core instruction as well as providing supplemental interventions for those students with the greatest difficulty.
It is likely that even
when less
than 80 % of students have met the
benchmark goal, there will be some students who are very significantly behind their peers.
It was a car that skewed younger
than the rest of the automaker's demographic, loaded with practicality and surprisingly affordable
when compared with the
benchmark of BMW.
A leaked
benchmark chart posted on Chinese microblogging website Weibo suggests the Samsung Exynos 8890 chipset will be significantly more powerful
than Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820
when it comes to multi-core performance.
The rate itself may not be as high as you would like to have, but, as you can see, it's a very decent rate comparing to other banks, especially
when the overall yields of savings accounts are so low, mostly in the lower 1 % range, thanks to the Fed's policy that has kept its
benchmark lending rate close to zero for more
than two years.
The ERs were even lower
than Vanguard ETFs, which are pretty much the
benchmarks of the industry
when it comes the costs of investing in ETFs, as well as mutual funds.
The only time in recent history
when many active investors fared much better
than their
benchmarks was
when markets were in upheaval following the market crash of 2008 - 2009.
When compared to the
benchmark averages (sometimes referred to «Lipper Averages «-RRB-, more
than 60 % of actively managed stock mutual funds fail to outperform their segment indexes (in other words, if a mutual fund targets the oil and gas industry, you'll do better just buying an index fund targeting the entire oil and gas industry rather
than buying an actively managed mutual fund that targeted only the «best» companies within the oil and gas industry).
The data presented above shows that
when equity funds were divided into quartiles based on their average holding period, a much higher percentage of funds with longer holding periods outperformed the
benchmark over the full period
than did funds in any of the other quartiles.
Active management occurs
when an investment funds manager picks stocks, rather
than simply aiming to match
benchmark indexes.
When you start your search, you want to look for funds that have outperformed their
benchmarks over a range of periods, because they are more likely to have proven investment strategies
than those that don't.
Blindly dismissing an individual for employment because his FICO Score dips below a certain «
benchmark» is an injustice to the candidate,
when the reality may be that he is far superior «financially»
than the manager doing the hiring.
I agree especially since other indexes have been outperforming the S&P for the last several years, which
when used as a
benchmark, makes the portfolio look like it performed better
than it actually did.
Bull markets rarely end
when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is higher
than benchmark bond yields.
A common
benchmark of financial distress is
when households must devote more
than 40 % of monthly income to repay debts (Bricker, et.
When a mutual fund manager has a statistically significant different performance
than the fund's
benchmark (i.e., a statistically significant positive or negative alpha), there are two possible explanations: skill or luck.
So
when the mass herds of both investors and professional advisors in sheeple mode are only buying essentially one thing, and that one thing is your
benchmark, then the one and only way to beat it is to own more
than they do, with leverage.
The negative correlation of -0.66 between these two variables indicates that
when the broad high yield universe benefited from spread tightening, the HYLV index underperformed the
benchmark from spread changes, and that spread widening would have less downward impact on the HYLV index
than the
benchmark.
Other posts here address attributes of industries (See my post of Aug. 16, 2010: if
benchmarks reflect technological intensity and competitiveness, more ways to measure it for an industry; Nov. 28, 2010:
when manufacturers earn so much from services, what industry are they in; Dec. 27, 2010: revenue per dollar of legal spend from technology companies; Feb. 15, 2011: comparison of 2010
benchmark survey respondents and US Fortune 200 industry distribution; Aug. 15, 2011: other attributes of companies
than industry for purposes of
benchmarking; and April 6, 2012: a way to quantify industry dynamism.).
When it comes to car insurance, our
benchmark drivers saw an average quote of $ 936 a year for full coverage, making the city 16 % more expensive
than the state wide average.
Lastly, the phone scores 230K (238129 to be precise) on AnTuTu
benchmark which is still less
than what the Galaxy S9 + scored
when it was spotted on AnTuTu recently.
Indeed,
when we ran
benchmarks on the new processing platform, the Snapdragon 845 turned in better numbers on GFXBench 4.0
than a host of Snapdragon 835 - powered phones.
There's no indication the two chips perform differently
when it comes to speed, but battery
benchmark tests on iPhones with TSMC chips and iPhones with Samsung chips initially suggested there could be some significant battery life differences between the two devices, with the TSMC iPhone 6s lasting approximately two hours longer
than the Samsung iPhone 6s.
One chip may perform slightly better
than the other in
benchmark tests, but
when it comes to real world performance, you can expect a very similar experience across the board.
The Galaxy S9 is the best Android phone out there, but it's not faster
than the iPhone X
when it comes to
benchmarks and intensive tasks.
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.
They are slower
than when you bought them, at least according to findings from Reddit users and a developer of Geekbench, a popular
benchmarking tool.
Here's the story — a user on the Beyond3D forum noticed that the GPU of the Exynos 5 Octa processor in the Galaxy S4 runs at a higher frequency
when running
benchmarks than it does
when it runs games or other regular apps.
When a phone makes such an appearance in
benchmarks like OnePlus 2 did, the usual expectations to follow are that the official update will come sooner
than later.
This way,
when they come to the interview, they can discuss salary using more
than just their previous earnings to
benchmark what they can expect to earn.
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?
WHIPPANY, N.J. —
When Vision Equities LLC and Rubenstein Partners purchased the 200 - acre former Alcatel - Lucent campus in Whippany a little more
than two years ago, the partnership recognized the property's potential to serve as a
benchmark infill revitalization for the State of New Jersey.