Sentences with phrase «year performance relative»

Not exact matches

The gain occurred even though 2017 has been Berkshire's second straight year of mediocre operating performance relative to prior periods.

But it makes sense to boost that allocation now because years of under - performance have made foreign stocks so much more affordable relative to American ones — in Asia and Europe and in emerging markets from South Korea to Turkey.

«The rolling three - year relative performance trend was extremely weak heading into 2017,» the Credit Suisse analyst Craig Siegenthaler wrote in a client note.

The single year - end performance measure was abolished, as were relative rankings.

Second, due to the relative performance metric, this design provides an incentive to outperform the composite index over the three - year performance cycle.

At the end of each year, the Committee determines compensation by assessing performance against these financial targets, as well as in light of HP's performance relative to its peers on other financial and non-financial factors and unusual or extraordinary events.

The change does not have a material impact on exposure or performance relative to the Barclays U.S. 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond Index it tracked previously.

In determining the long - term incentive component of CEO compensation, the Committee shall consider, among other factors, the Company's performance and relative shareholder return, the value of similar incentive awards to chief executive officers at comparable companies, the awards given to the CEO in past years, and other factors considered relevant by the Committee.

My own thinking is much more geared to five year performance, preferably with tests of relative results in both strong and weak markets.»

If I sent my clients a relative performance orientated letter — «Dear Client, we are pleased to report that we beat the market this year by 300 basis points; the market declined 43 % for the year but we only lost 40 % of your net worth» — I don't think any of them would be thrilled» Seth Klarman

The Fund's calendar year performance was weak in absolute and relative terms, declining 4 % versus the MSCI World ex U.S. Index's loss of 3 %.

But if you again look at the performance graphs I referenced earlier, you'll see that all of our Funds have endured periods, sometimes for several years, when they have either lost money or lost ground relative to their benchmarks.

However, five years out there is much greater return dispersion in the market, which creates the potential for investment managers to post strongly differentiated performance relative to the benchmark.

The Fund's calendar - year performance was weak in absolute and relative terms, declining 5 % versus the MSCI World ex U.S. Index's loss of 4 %.

Momentum and growth stocks were in favor this year, and that helped the Validea Momentum and Small - Cap growth investor portfolios lead the pack in terms of relative performance.

Summer Doldrums — A Pretty Compelling Seasonal Pattern From Exhibits 1 - 4 below, one can see that in very few years have gold prices and / or gold equities appreciated over the summer months in the northern hemisphere (charts all use the April 1st gold price as the reference point for relative performance).

And yet, 2016 was one of our best ever years of relative performance.

Please do not expect this level of absolute and relative performance every quarter or year, but we hope you enjoy them like we do as fellow investors in the Fund.

The Fund's calendar - year performance was strong in absolute and relative terms, returning 29 % versus the MSCI World ex U.S. Index's return of 21 %.

This is also supported by further deterioration in the relative performance of the Technology composite, which appears as a bottom 3 performer year - to - date.

And let's be clear, in the case of Hess I believe the real issue is the company's extremely poor relative performance over the years and which slate of directors is best situated to take the company forward.

The FIA have complex simulations which they can use to determine the relative performance of different engines (not that they're needed to see just how bad Honda are this year!)

Despite a solid weekend in Sochi which saw him come close to pole and then score his first podium of the year, Kimi Raikkonen has come under fire this year for his apparent lack of performance relative to his Ferrari team mate Sebastian Vettel.

It is true that the Conservatives have underperformed in Northern urban areas for some years, relative to their overall performance, but this is a very good example of lazy journalism.

Ginger, curly Steve Parry «I should introduce myself, otherwise you might think «I know Rebekah Brooks has had a bad year but...»» was an ebullient compere when introducing his show Leftwing Comedy: An Infantile Disorder, followed by relative newcomer Don Biswas the «Dispraxic Gag Merchant», who gave an anarchic performance, which rapidly gained confidence after a slightly rambling beginning.

I'd quite agree that its relative bad performance compared to the early years was spun as failure, and that was what mattered in the election, but the economy then did worse when the next lot took over.

For example, Variety's Peter Debruge writes, «Not many are likely to mistake what Marion Cotillard does in Angel Face for great acting, as the glamorous French star gives a performance so phony it feels like a Saturday Night Live parody of a white - trash trainwreck, downright pathetic in its attempt to achieve what came so naturally to relative amateur Bria Vinaite in last year's The Florida Project.»

Pride also scores one of the year's best ensembles, with great performances from veterans Imelda Staunton, Paddy Considine and Bill Nighy, along with relative newcomers Ben Schnetzer and Faye Marsay.

I standardize the raw test scores by assigning each student a percentile score, which indicates performance relative to all North Carolina students who took the test in the same grade and year.

Our fundamental findings from an analysis of the 3rd - and 4th - grade data for these two years indicate that the performance of students identified for retention, regardless of whether they were retained or exempted and promoted, exceeded the performance of low - performing students from the previous year who were not subject to the retention policy; and students who were actually retained made the larger relative gains.

Still, for many years it lacked a clear framework for evaluating the relative performance of the district's different types of schools.

Looking at the SAT and ACT performance of high school graduates by racial group, the percentage changes (about 5 percentage points from the third year on) are similar among white, black, and Hispanics, but the differences in impact relative to the prior performance of each group are sizable.

Perhaps in a move to reduce the potential for inconsistent application of A to E grades, the Victorian State Government negotiated to apply the A to E scale not to the relative quality of a student's performance against one year - level standard, but to a student's demonstrated achievement against curriculum standards across year levels.

A teacher with seven years of experience makes less than a teacher with 10 years, regardless of relative skills, performance, or any other factor directly related to student learning.

It reported moderate increases in reading achievement, relative to 2008, for students in Years 3 and 5, and a moderate decrease in the writing performance of Years 3, 5 and 7s.

The estimated average annual impact on reading performance of for - profit management relative to district management is a positive 10 percent of a standard deviation, approximately 36 percent of a year's worth of reading.

For instance, we may want to know how well we can classify teachers using their first year or two of measured performance relative to their measures of performance in future years.

Under value - added analysis, the only thing that matters is how students perform on the CMT relative to their performance the previous year.

«This year's USC School Performance Dashboard drills further into the multiple dimensions of each California charter school, revealing not only the greater and lesser strengths of each, but also how each is performing relative to other charters and to other California public schools,» Guilbert C. Hentschke, a report co-author and professor at the USC Rossier School of Education, said in the press release.

Because the tests measure different groups of students from year to year, the results are best used as snapshots of performance relative to other countries at one point in time.

For its touring - car comfort, exotic performance, relative bargain price, and stunning sheetmetal, we had named the R8 our 2008 Automobile of the Year.

«I do not have much confidence in the practical worth for most analysts of detailed studies of individual companies, with emphasis placed on either their comparative performance or on predictions of their relative future performance over a one - to - five - years time span.»

The following chart with associated statistics depicts the relative performance of the fund over the most recent five - year period:

The following chart with statistics shows the relative performance of the fund over the most recent three - year period:

«After years of relative under performance against developed markets, emerging markets offer good companies that trade at (low) valuations,» Zamorano says.

The relative strength of stocks passing the Weiss screen indicates that they have outperformed the S&P 500 by 10 % over the last year — good performance, but not as good as the 18 % for the typical exchange - listed stock.

One noticeable divergence has been the performance of small and mid-cap stocks relative to large caps over the past six years.

The SPIVA Latin America Year - End 2017 Scorecard, which tracks the performance of active funds in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico relative to category benchmarks, was recently released.

In a series of publications last year, we shared our insights on why we believe emphasizing factors or strategies that are trading cheap relative to their own historical norms, and deemphasizing the more expensive factors or strategies, can improve performance.

From a peer analysis perspective, relative outperformance last month is up from a median performance last year.