Large financial firms are under scrutiny for their pay practices following their rescue by taxpayers during the financial crisis and a long period of poor stock performance.
Even if the Commission turns out to be right, that would be a very long period of sub-par performance.
Bill Clinton, a Democrat, ended up being quite supportive of business, but did serve during a period of strong overall economic performance.
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Momentum can be defined as the tendency of stocks to demonstrate consistent performance over a given period of time (typically three to twelve months), and the tendency of past winners to keep winning and losers to keep losing relative to their peers.
Our Company of the Year covers are traditionally awarded for stellar past performance over a period of years, and that creates the trap that sometimes we pick a company that has completely and totally peaked.
Any manager should be able to find some period of time over which his performance is arguably competitive to quote when necessary.
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The company said it had seen a "continuous period of improvement" in its performance since December and added it was continuing to train and recruit drivers.
On average, 50 percent of funds close or merge over a 20-year period, mainly as a result of prolonged poor performance.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs, which was close to the bottom in terms of performance during the period, has seen its shares get whacked because the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 16 charged Goldman and one of its vice presidents with fraud.
The anticipatory period leading up to a performance of any sort is difficult for most performers, but there is a particular challenge involved in waiting to perform an act that is to some degree extemporaneous, and battle rap is a rather harrowing mix of the extemporaneous and premeditated.
The 1966 collection (introduced in 2006) pays homage to a prolific era in terms of creativity, technical expertise and performance of Girard-Perregaux a period when the watch brand received several awards.
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During the period of July 1995 through March 2002, currency reduced performance by a significant 57.3%.
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Consider this: the difference between wild success and complete failure may be as small as a 3 percent difference in your performance, run out over a period of years.
Buffett looks at the historical performance of stocks and sees an unrepeatable period.
Russian engineers will certify, or "guarantee", the performance of the return capsules for a fixed period.
That return to growth during the third quarter of 2012 also outstripped the performance in the same period the previous year, when the economy grew by 0.4%.
Day to day performance over a long period is the only reliable predictor of future results.
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In the UK, the richest 1% take about 14% of all income - the highest since World War II but lower than the interwar period, according to the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance.
Over a five week period, they stole three hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth of high-performance cars at gunpoint, without a care for their victims.
Every student of the period should doff his helmet to the author for an exemplary battlefield performance.
Gold's performance stood out against sharp drops over that period in the value of U.S. stocks and houses.
"Portfolio managers' bonuses could be conditional on their performance over a defined period, for senior managers, a minimum of three years, " he said.
The performance of a fund manager or fund company over a longer period of time and through different market environments can often be a better indication of the strategic capabilities of the fund manager.
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Looking at the performance of the Google Trends Portfolio over a the seven year period (2004-2011) covered in the paper underscores the conclusion that something changed in the data used to make the predictions a few years back.
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Only 9.4 percent of mid-cap funds and 23.3 percent of small-cap funds maintained top-quartile performance over the same period.
However, John Lewis conceded that its performance was weaker in the first week of the post-Christmas sales period, down 4.8% from a year ago.
Thomson Holidays issued a profits warning earlier in the year, blaming the poor performance on a lack of take up of short breaks over the millennium period.
His performance at Woodstock in 1969 catapulted him into the front ranks of the period's British guitar heroes, which included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Pete Townshend.
As previously reported, the company said sales at established restaurants slipped 0.2 percent, after a strong performance in the year-ago period that got a boost from the introduction of Dave's Hot 'n Juicy burgers.
It then compared the performance of the best 30 funds in each of those four-year periods with their performance over the next four-year period.
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