Sentences with phrase «took over the benchmark»

Even so, the Zenfone 2 took over the benchmark ranks by scoring no less than 50,401 points.

Not exact matches

Provident Financial took over the top of the European benchmark up by more than 22 percent following news that it reorganized its consumer credit unit.

Eventually she took over running the popular Venture Capital Executive Compensation Survey from Benchmark.

«With their own sizable investment portfolios, most public companies could use their power as shareholders to urge public companies and asset managers to take a relentlessly long - term focus... That may mean using performance benchmarks over three -, five - and even 10 - year periods, in addition to shorter period benchmarks.»

Sebastian Vettel set a new lap record during the Belgian Grand Prix, taking over six - tenths of a second off the benchmark he set eight years ago.

David Cameron voiced support for proposals from his party's democracy task force to link MPs» pay to a fixed benchmark, taking away their discretion over salary increases.

The problem is that this adaptation simply doesn't match the high benchmark of the MCU movies that followed, and it wasn't until Mark Ruffalo took over the role from Edward Norton that the Hulk finally smashed his way into the hearts of fans worldwide in The Avengers.

You get schools to «fail» by setting up ridiculous benchmarks (such as «No Child Left Behind» and now «Common Core»); and then when the school has failed, you take it out of local control and turn it over to charter school companies and other «reformers.»

A control group that takes a more standardized version could then be used as a benchmark to adjust results over time.

Looking at the percentage of graduates taking benchmark tests such as the SAT and ACT and overall scores over time, scores on the ACT College and Career Readiness Benchmark have on the whole either held fairly steady or increased slightly since 2009, even as the percentage of graduates taking the ACT exam has continued to rise (in 2005, approximately 40 percent of graduates took the ACT, rising to approximately 59 percent benchmark tests such as the SAT and ACT and overall scores over time, scores on the ACT College and Career Readiness Benchmark have on the whole either held fairly steady or increased slightly since 2009, even as the percentage of graduates taking the ACT exam has continued to rise (in 2005, approximately 40 percent of graduates took the ACT, rising to approximately 59 percent Benchmark have on the whole either held fairly steady or increased slightly since 2009, even as the percentage of graduates taking the ACT exam has continued to rise (in 2005, approximately 40 percent of graduates took the ACT, rising to approximately 59 percent in 2015).

The graph displays your student's Star Reading and Star Math scores in relation to a trajectory of achievement through grade 11 (the year students most commonly take the ACT), and indicates performance associated with meeting the equivalent of ACT's College Readiness Benchmarks.2 This line is estimated back to grade 6 to show a pathway over time.

It didn't take long before the benchmarks came out and Avram over at LaptopMag always reliably puts his gadgets through the

Our aim is to provide our clients with «value added» (excess) returns over and above traditional benchmarks, while at the same time taking on less risk than the overall market.

This means that despite a 10 % outperformance over the benchmark (20 % vs. 10 %), a more accurate estimation of the portfolio's alpha when adjusting for the risk taken on by the portfolio is about half that.

For example, Jensen's alpha takes into account performance over or under a theoretical benchmark using the following formula:

By giving a plan a Gold rating, Morningstar analysts are expressing an expectation that the plan's investment options collectively will outperform their relevant performance benchmarks and / or peer groups within the context of the level of risk taken over the long term (defined as a full market cycle or at least five years).

Magellan has posted average annual returns of 20.3 % from Sept. 16, 2011, when Mr. Feingold took over, through the end of August, trailing its benchmark, the S&P 500, at 21.2 %, while matching the Russell 1000 Growth Index, according to data from Morningstar.

Though I agree that it is not easy to benchmark an individual stock against anything, but over the long term any riskier or uncertain investment or portfolio of riskier or uncertain investment should deliver real returns for the investor in order to compensate for the risk taken.

Taking the 25 % benchmark, we can compare Doran et al to Verheggen et al, in which just over 90 % agree that 25 % or more of the warming is due to anthropogenic factors.

I don't know what «benchmark island» means, but the current best estimate of the rate of sea - level rise, averaged over the world during 2003 to 2008, is +2.5 millimetres / yr, give or take 0.4 mm.

Some additional distinctions between Liam Brown's «law company» and the traditional law firm include: (1) performance and reward structures that value output over input; (2) closer alignment with the financial and enterprise objectives of the consumer; (3) a corporate structure that takes a long - term, client - centric view over profit - per - partner; (4) continuous process improvement; (5) investment in technology; (6) focus on «the right resource for the task»; (6) compressed delivery time; (7) a continuous quest to use technology and process to automate tasks and gather «big data» for benchmarking, predicting, and quantifying risk; (8) a transparent, 24/7/365 accessible connection with legal consumers; (9) supply chain management expertise; and (10) reduced cost.

Eventually she took over running the popular Venture Capital Executive Compensation Survey from Benchmark.

During my testing (which was mainly running benchmarks, taking photos, playing videos etc.) I haven't seen the average RAM usage go over 2 GB.

Ahead of last Friday's launch of the new Retina MacBook, we saw several early benchmarks for the entry - level notebook running a 1.1 GHz Intel Core M processor, putting CPU performance for the new machine roughly on par with the 2011 MacBook Air according to Geekbench.With the machines now available for purchase, we're starting to see Geekbench results for the mid-range 1.2 GHz processor, revealing a significant performance boost over the low - end chip for multi-core benchmarks, but less so for single - core testing.It will take a little while for Geekbench results to firm up as the machines work through their early housekeeping tasks, but the best results we're seeing so far for the 1.2 GHz model are approaching 2600 on 64 - bit single - core tests and over 5300 on multi-core tests.

When tested in the AnTuTu field, the device takes the benchmark score over 90k, by clocking at a whopping 91458.

Further, building on the initiative taken by HREOC to convene the Workshop, a continuing dialogue over the coming months between HREOC and the Steering Committee would appear to provide a constructive path in respect of ensuring that the human rights dimension of benchmarking reconciliation is built into the Draft framework.

Long - term interest rates rose by well over 50 basis points in the last months of 2016, as the yield on the benchmark U.S. Treasury bonds took off after the victory of Donald Trump in the presidential election.