Sentences with phrase «than the benchmark which»

In declining markets it has fallen less than the benchmark which adds to its attractiveness for an investor.

Not exact matches

As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.

Ironically, Gurley's venture capital firm, Benchmark Capital, is an early and actively supportive investor of ride - hailing company Uber, which has raised more than $ 8.2 billion and is valued at over $ 51 billion.

In any case, Weschler has in Peninsula's history produced a dazzling record, which in his letters to partners he compares to four benchmarks — not only to the standard comparatives like the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500, but also to none other than Berkshire B stock.

In AMD's internal tests, the new top - end $ 330 Ryzen 7 2700X chip was 1 % slower than a comparable Intel Core i7 8700K chip, which costs $ 370, in a benchmark of 12 video games.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average wasn't far behind, and one of the best performances was turned in by the Russell 2000 Index, the benchmark for small - cap equities, which was up by more than 31 percent.

There are other issues to settle, including the explosive lawsuit filed by Benchmark Capital — which owns more than 10 percent of the company and has a board seat held by Matt Cohler — against Kalanick, whom the venture firm helped oust and has been trying to restrain.

The fund typically favors longer maturities than our benchmark and tends to lean toward riskier paper, both of which increase yield.

The total amount of fees the Company paid F.W. Cook in 2007 was $ 111,207, which included the fees paid for services provided as the independent compensation consultant to the HRC and GNC, reimbursement of F.W. Cook's reasonable travel and business expenses, and a fee of less than $ 5,000 for a survey of long - term incentives which is used for benchmarking for other positions throughout Wells Fargo.

Apart from Benchmark, they are First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Menlo Ventures and Fidelity Investments, which together own more than a quarter of Uber's stock.

According to Ottawa - based Analytica Advisors, which tracks and benchmarks the space, the cleantech industry in Canada is worth almost $ 12 - billion and employs 50,000 people across more than 800 firms.

The so - called benchmark revision, which takes place about twice a decade, also showed the economy grew faster in 2012 than previously estimated: 2.8 % vs. 2.2 %.

The total amount of fees the Company paid Cook & Co. in 2011 was $ 163,199, which included the fees paid for services provided as the independent compensation consultant to the HRC and GNC, reimbursement of Cook & Co.'s reasonable travel and business expenses, and a fee of less than $ 5,000 for a survey of long - term incentives which is used for benchmarking for other positions throughout the Company.

With 30 holdings, VNM is much broader than our segment benchmark, which has just 13 securities.

The sweet spot will be more than one or two (which makes it too easy for the CEO to benchmark against others) and fewer than 10 (since the competitors» performance will have to be aggregated into one number for comparison).

On July 23, 2014, we entered into an Amended and Restated Investors» Rights Agreement, or IRA, with certain holders of our common stock and the holders of our outstanding convertible preferred stock, including Yahoo!, Teradata, entities affiliated with Benchmark and Index Ventures and Hewlett - Packard Company, which each hold more than five percent of our outstanding capital stock.

The fund's clean energy mandate is slightly different than our benchmark's «renewable energy» focus which explains ICLN's low Fit score without invalidating its approach.

Many would consider that a classic «black swan event» and the reaction would be «much more severe» than Brexit, which caused the S&P 500 Index to fall 5.3 percent in two days as benchmarks in Europe and elsewhere lost even more.»

More than 180 airlines are included in the five - star ranking system, which is widely considered the global benchmark of airline standards.

The benchmark 10 - yr yield, for instance, finished at 2.95 % on Thursday — which is about eight basis points below the more than four - year high it hit last week.

Although interest rates have hovered near historic lows recently, the LIBOR benchmark rate, on which most variable interest rate loans are based, more than doubled in the year through July 2017, dragging payments for variable interest rate student loans up with them.

«In all, 66 publishers met or surpassed this benchmark figure on Apple's store in 2016, which was 1.7 times more than the 39 that managed the same degree of success on Google's platform,» wrote Sensor Tower in a blog post.

The benchmark Shanghai share index — which has more than doubled in the last year — fell 6.4 percent on Friday.

Stevia exhibits a different taste profile than the benchmark, sugar, which is most often described as «delayed onset.»

Correct me if i'm wrong, but Welbeck never scored more than 10 goals in a single epl campaign, let alone 20, which is usually the benchmark of a world - class, title winning centre forward.

Last season was the first time a Manchester United player had scored more than 20 goals in a season for a while, which showed the club the benchmark for success.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

After comparing contemporary survey data with 40 years of historical benchmarks, Cascade Sorte, assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology at UCI, and colleagues from around the U.S. report that the blue mussel numbers have declined by more than 60 percent along the gulf coastline, which stretches from Cape Cod north to the Canadian border.

The team was able to cover 99.9 % of the mappable nucleotide positions in the genome at least once, and more than 92 % of the sites at least 20 times, which is considered a benchmark for identifying sites reliably.

The team plans on doing benchmarks on the Jaguar supercomputer, which has a much higher theoretical bandwidth than either the Franklin or Chinook systems.

This is substantially more than the 41 per cent of the national benchmark and slightly more than the response given by participants in the Tomorrow's Engineers programme (47 per cent), which takes place throughout the year.

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.

The methods used, however, are far more robust than the ways in which Schneider's organization is patching together data from U.S. states and international assessments to suggest to states that they can pass over a process of thorough international benchmarking.

The data released Tuesday marks the first time DPI has converted results of the state test, which more than 430,000 students in grades 3 - 8 and 10 take in the fall, to the NAEP benchmarks.

The study's design, in which teachers were judged against percentile benchmarks rather than their colleagues» performance, sought to preserve collaboration among teachers.

The abuses alleged in the testing process appear to be more a problem related to constant practice and benchmark testing at the school district level than problems with the requirement of the state accountability system, which are benign by comparison.

Not surprisingly, it appears that documents which break out benchmarks at grades K - 3 are more likely to address the foundational knowledge and skills related to reading acquisition than are those that provide only grade cluster information.

That means students and teachers will not be held to the stricter standards of Common Core, under which instructors face more stringent accountability and risk termination for under - performing pupils who do not reach specific academic benchmarks set by the program, for an additional five years later than originally expected.

And the content which is aligned with the new Common Core State Standards and their more rigorous benchmarks for student learning will surely be more rigorous than what students have encountered in the past.

And, despite more than 40 states setting clear benchmarks for postsecondary credential attainment, not even a quarter of the states aligned their K - 12 long - term goals with those in higher education, which is a huge missed opportunity for kids.

The case centres on more than 10,000 pupils who missed out on a C grade in GCSE English which is a crucial benchmark used for entry into further education, vocational training and employment, but the decision affected all the grade margins.

With the passage of ESSA, states are now in the midst of crafting their own new benchmarks and accountability, which, at least on the face of the law, allow greater flexibility than NCLB's test - heavy benchmarks that engendered so much controversy and resistance.

They want to create some of the «best schools in the world,» and according to BASIS.ed scores on the PISA exam, students are well on their way to proving that mission — and as BASIS likes to emphasize, they even score better than high - performing students in Shanghai (International Benchmarking, 2016), which is usually one of the highest performing regions on the PISA exam.

The challenge centred on more than 10,000 pupils who missed out on a C grade in GCSE English, which is a crucial benchmark used for entry into further education, vocational training and employment.

Its 985 - cc SOHC four - cylinder engine put out 68 horsepower — a little more than 1 horsepower per cubic inch, which was the benchmark for American muscle cars of the era.

However, it's what the RS does between those two benchmarks, specifically around that other great benchmark, the Nürburgring Nordschleife, that really takes your breath away: its lap time of 6:56.4 is 14 seconds faster than the AMG GT R's and just 9 seconds shy of the GT2 RS, which has 177bhp and 206 lb ft more at its disposal.

That all goes through a new eight - speed PDK dual clutch gearbox, which is just as good as, or better than, the benchmark ZF eight - speed automatic.

At 3.5 seconds it dispatches the benchmark sprint quicker than a Lexus LFA, as well as the Dodge Challenger Hellcat, which happens to share its 6.2 - litre supercharged V8 with the big Jeep.

The 3,336 - pound vehicle has a higher power - to - weight ratio than its benchmarked competitors, which include the BMW 330i, Lexus IS 300 and Mercedes - Benz C320.

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.