Sentences with phrase «well against the benchmark»

My advisor tells me I have done well against the benchmark.

Not exact matches

You should benchmark your business against companies that are doing better than you.

DIY's like to compare against us because we're kind of the benchmark — to say, «I can build it better than Alienware» — that's fine.

«In addition to adopting industry - wide reforms related to participation in benchmark rates, Citi has made substantial investments in its systems, controls and monitoring processes to better guard against inappropriate behavior,» the bank added.

The good: B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third - party guide for students, and a marketing tool.

To benchmark his own business practices against the best ones in his industry, David Luse of $ 8.2 - million Minneapolis - based Arteka, a landscaping company, created his own small networking group.

Retirement Benefits Group hired a third - party to benchmark their fees against the rest of the industry, something Weir recommends other advisors do as well.

Entrepreneurs would do well to track their own revenue per employee and benchmark it against other startups of similar size and scale.

However, active large - cap growth and value funds have fared better this year against their style benchmarks.

This case study has viewed SEA of India in terms both of what it does and how it does it, benchmarking it against a model of best practice published by the UK's Trade Association Forum and also drawing on a previous ITC study visit with East African sunflower associations

As Woolworths has been the traditional price leader, its prices provide the benchmark for independent grocery pricing, although Metcash checks against Coles» prices as well.

FreeFrom Food Awards judges included professional foodies (manufacturers, chefs and cookery writers), medics (dietitians and nutritionists) coeliacs and allergy sufferers and parents of allergic children, a dozen or so keen freefrom bloggers and a good sprinkling of «outsiders» to benchmark the products against «normal», non-freefrom equivalents.

Learn how California vintners and winegrape growers have utilized the 3rd edition California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Workbook to measure their level of sustainability and benchmark internal practices against industry best practices.

We recognise the important role of «Q» Awards in highlighting product quality and supplier professionalism and confidently look forward to benchmarking Northern Ireland produce against the best in the industry.

The disciplinary rules are benchmarked against acknowledged best practice of other sports» National Governing Bodies and we are confident that they provide our members with a fair, robust and consistent approach to disciplinary matters.

Second, the voting public knows full well that every country is hurting at the moment, and will judge both the level of blame to be ascribed to Labour, and the reasonableness of the coalition's cuts, against that benchmark.

«At the direction of the Executive Chamber, the Division of the Budget engaged Deloitte LLP to benchmark New York's IT operations against public and private sector best practices.»

I'll be recapping my progress for the year, benchmarked against last year's goals — as well as sharing my resolutions for 2018 soon, but in the meantime, I'd love to hear from you guys — how did 2017 treat you?

The boards said they were benchmarking their specifications against «the best in the world» and wanted to encourage schools that they were working with Ofqual to make sure specifications were accredited «as soon as possible».

Across the portfolio, CMO schools perform somewhat better in math than in reading, when benchmarked against their local peers on state assessments.

He said: «The government's new gold - standard GCSEs in English and maths have been benchmarked against the best in the world, raising academic standards for pupils.

Based on the workplace Well - being Charter, schools can benchmark themselves against a list of healthy objectives and have access to resources and expert advice.

We know that JJ's sells across a range of categories and when we benchmarked them against other suppliers, they performed really well and helped us to consolidate our shop to one place.»

Achieve has helped nearly half the states benchmark their standards and tests against the best examples in this country and abroad and work in partnership to improve teaching and learning.

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.

The quotient could be used to judge schools against established benchmarks and ensure they are developing well - rounded, capable learners.

Ravenscroft hasn't implemented this feature, which seems better suited to public or charter school systems that must adhere to local or national standards and track their progress against government benchmarks.

• Social mobility • Young people's health and well - being • High performance learning, benchmarked against international best • The school - led system and self - regulation • Multi-academy trusts and school partnerships shaping «the middle tier», amidst a landscape of mergers and acquisitions.

We have a pretty good idea of what cars Chevrolet was benchmarking for the 2014 Corvette Stingray, thanks to one of our spy shooters catching the new Vette out testing against the competition.

Benchmark the Ford Fusion against comparable products from Toyota and Honda — Ford does, so we might as well, too — and it doesn't quite match: The Fusion is slotted between the Toyota Corolla and the Camry, and between the Honda Civic and Accord, occupying the market territory once held by the Nissan Altima before the Altima was redesigned in 2002 as a much bigger, nicer, pricier car.

Benchmarked against some of the best performance SUVs in the world and tuned on the Nurburgring racetrack in Germany, the new MDX clearly establishes itself as a driver's SUV.

Meanwhile, as Hyundai otherwise points out, it stands to fare well against the direct competitors and it does set a new benchmark — at least until vehicles like the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV and whatever else next comes along.

While Jaguar bosses had other reasons to launch the automaker's first SUV so late after (almost) all other rival premium brands, the final product nevertheless benefitted from being benchmarked against the best models the segment has to offer.

And yet, the all - new Accord goes up against a field of very good cars, so now it's merely very competitive, not the benchmark that it was in the past.

The company's unwavering focus on performance has made the 3 Series the benchmark all other sports sedans are judged against, and its best - selling model.

Bigger, better looking and unashamedly benchmarked against the Volkswagen Golf, the new PD - generation i30 aims to be a step - change for the brand.

Continuing the obvious link with German engineering and given Henning's background with both Daimler and Volkswagen, GWM is benchmarking its transmissions against the best that Germany has to offer.

The performance levels we see in the benchmarks show us that Intel is finally showing its teeth with Bay Trail, besting previous generation, Clovertrail by a healthy margin and comparing very favorably against Qualcomm's Snapdragon 801 SoC.

It even fares well in performance benchmark tests against its competitors.

As you can see, the Playbook does very well against an array of devices (smartphones and tablets) recently tested — even if the Motorola Xoom and the iPad 2 are well ahead in both benchmarks.

We tested a series of benchmarks on the Galaxy S III, and it performed very well against the competition.

All in all I would say it's a bit overpriced, the specs maybe better but I'm pretty sure the iPad will perform at higher benchmarks as it has against sammy's galaxy s phones.

In fact, the tablet scored very well against other tablets on the benchmark tests, but its specs were top - of - the - line in 2011.

While the study certainly brings value, it would be better if it compared actively - managed mutual funds not against each other but against an independent market benchmark specific to each fund category.

If you measure the performance of one category of investment against the benchmark of another, you may not have the best information.

Benchmarking against an index is really the best way to objectively evaluate investment performance.

These are excess total returns measured against an equal - weighted benchmark, which means, for example, the +58 percent result for the Best Performing 10 % (Large) means that those stocks beat the market by 58 percent in any given year.

Since portfolio risk is often measured against a benchmark, tracking error is a commonly used metric to gauge how well an investment is performing.

It holds higher education institutions accountable by analyzing graduate employment, income, and student debt statistics against national averages.In short, the rule compares the financial well - being graduates of a particular education program against average benchmarks.

We compare each of their 167 strategies, which include both current funds and funds no longer in existence, since inception against its current Morningstar assigned benchmark to see just how well each has delivered on their perceived value proposition.