Sentences with phrase «time giving benchmark»

Teachers spend an inordinate amount of time giving benchmark tests to prepare for more tests.

Not exact matches

Trudeau reset the benchmark in Hamburg, Germany on February 17, delivering a direct message to business leaders: «It's time to pay a living wage, to pay your taxes and to give your workers the peace of mind that comes with stable, full - time contracts.»

The longer you benchmark or measure your progress to an irrelevant or outdated standard, the more time you waste and the more ground you give up to the competition.

The New York Times reported that on Sunday, August 27, Whitman met with some Uber board members and gave a presentation about what Uber would have to do to get her to take the job, including settling a lawsuit between investors Benchmark and former CEO Travis Kalanick.

Even though research shows that actively managed mutual funds regularly underperform their benchmarks, Morningstar analysts are 20 times more likely to give a positive rating to a fund rather than a negative one.

Giving three extra seats on the board to the CEO was certainly founder friendly; that the expansion happened at the same time Uber accepted a $ 3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which came with a board seat, suggests Benchmark viewed the board expansion as a way to protect its own interests and influence as well.

But given the rebound in optimism, the jump proved short - lived, so that most of the time volatilities (ie median volatilities) were low relative to historical benchmarks and roughly in line with developments in 2006 (Graph 3, right - hand panel).

It was only after Mr. Kalanick took a leave to deal with his family's personal tragedies that Benchmark for the first time took the position that Mr. Kalanick should be forced to resign and to give up his right to appoint additional Board members — supposedly because he had withheld information that Benchmark in fact knew all about.

While floaters may be linked to almost any benchmark and pay interest based on a variety of formulas, the most basic type pays a coupon equal to some widely followed interest rate or a change in a given index over a defined time period, such as the year - over-year change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), plus a fixed spread in basis points (1bp = 1/100 of 1 % or.01 %).

[New Research] B2C Marketers Need to Give Content Marketing Time Following their successful release of their B2B content marketing benchmarks report, Content Marketing Institute has shifted their research focus to B2C.

That might not be so far - fetched given the deep tension between Benchmark's Bill Gurley — who left the Uber board in favor of his partner Cohler — and Kalanick and the level of mistrust that has developed over time.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday it will freeze its benchmark currency basket until October 2016, giving markets more time to adjust to the possible addition of China's yuan as part of a review of global reserve currencies.

These partners gave generously of their time and patiently answered our questions, and each of them is a vibrant part of the Benchmarks tapestry.

Many districts have also developed benchmark exams that are given a few times a year to measure students» progress towards mastering these power standards; that way, schools don't have to wait until August to find out how students did on the big, standardized state tests.

Maybe his time, given his varying roles, would be better spent a. Getting his Trust to produce a detailed case - study with a breakdown of all the cost - savings made, for other schools to scrutinise and benchmark against... and b. actually making sure that the folk setting up his much trumpeted «national deals brokered by the government to help schools save money on energy bills and hardware like printers and photocopiers» do a better job.

Used for benchmarking, an SEL assessment can be given two to three times during the year and lets you know where students are in their social and emotional skill development.

Benchmark assessments can only be administered by the Study Island school or district administrator and can be given three or four times during the school year.

The fact that the Civic's seats are both comfortable yet uncommonly supportive presumably helps, as does a driving position that is low - slung, with a hugely adjustable steering wheel and easily modulated pedals and which should give Ford and Renault a benchmark next time they make a hot hatchback.

And given the timing of the Google Pixel C benchmark today, it looks like yesterday's rumor concerning the December 8 pre-order date / market unveiling in the Netherlands has substance to it.

However, while we still are some time away from having a go at devices powered by the new Medfield chip, here are some benchmark figures that can give us an inkling of what's been going on inside Intel.

The established University gives the primary and benchmark expectation which will provide with enough time to get the whole work revised and make necessary changes as per the requirement.

He might have chosen low fee products that deliver solid performance when compared to the benchmark indices and at the same time provide compensation to him for giving you investment advice.

Those that have been around long enough to provide a substantial track record, such as 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year returns, give investors an idea of the stability level when measuring performance over time with a benchmark such as U.S. Treasury bills.

(A backtest is simply a statistical look at historical data to determine whether employing a given investment factor, such as selecting stocks with low price - earnings ratios, results in excess returns over time; i.e., returns above a stock market benchmark.)

Alpholio ™ uses a true risk - adjusted benchmark that is as relevant as possible to the fund or portfolio at any given time in the analysis period.

The goal is to beat respective benchmarks by 2 % per year, while keeping tracking error to 2 - 4 % at any given time, according to executives at State Street.

Timing is anyone's guess, but I would suspect two auctions — in November 2005 and February 2006 — in order to give the new benchmark bond sufficient liquidity.

I always make it a point to highlight my disdain for leveraged ETFs as an «investment» since they tend to lose value over time regardless of the performance of the underlying benchmark given the value decay from daily rebalancing.

In the 10 years from 2001 to 2010, the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) gave an annualised return on investment of 4.9 per cent.

Deciding how much time to give a poor performer to rebound is not easy, but you should seriously start to think about selling a fund that has lagged its benchmark and peers for the past 18 months to two years.

In our investing Models, alpha is the value of selecting open - ended mutual funds, compared to using benchmark indices, to fund the asset classes; given the same asset class mix, over the same time horizon.

Sefaira Architecture already integrates the 2030 Challenge benchmarks directly into its real - time energy analysis, and now the integration of the 2030 Palette into Sefaira's Design Guidance feature connects designers with the most appropriate passive design strategies, based on the energy - use profile of a given design.

This processing package is certainly impressive given the price point of this device, but while the general performance has been very smooth, and the benchmark scores have been relatively high, the phone did hang a few times during my testing.

After benchmarks of the HTC U also showed up with a few specs and features of the phone, another leak has emerged giving us full details of what to expect when this handset is unveiled in a few weeks» time.

«Conversely, its value on a given day (before fees and expenses) should lose approximately 1.25 times, 1.5 times or 2 times, as applicable, as much on a percentage basis as the level of the target benchmark when the benchmark declines.»

«If the 2X Bear Fund is successful in meeting its investment objective, its value on a given day should gain approximately two times as much on a percentage basis as the level of the target benchmark when the target benchmark declines.