For Fisher, the benchmark to beat is the MSCI, the Morgan Stanley World Index.
It recently had less exposure than the MSCI benchmark to China but more to Brazil.
These test runs are invaluable intelligence that will allow you to establish a benchmark to measure everything else against.
Now, you could argue that it's a pretty unambitious benchmark to compare yourself with the UK as a whole.
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For one, because they are asset-allocation strategies, it is difficult to choose the proper benchmark to compare them to, he says.
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India's Sensex index jumped 3.4% to 15685.21, snapping a five-session losing streak that had brought the benchmark to a 28-month low.
For Fisher, the benchmark to beat is the MSCI, the Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) World Index.
Like other professional municipal bond investors, I use the Thomson Reuters Municipal Market Monitor (MMD) as a benchmark to make these kinds of assessments.
Although international tradeshow WiFi connections are typically dreadful, we did manage to successfully run the Sunspider benchmark to get a quick taste of its rendering performance.
It's certainly good to have a clear benchmark to back up the government's previous pledge that Britain will have the "best" superfast broadband in Europe by 2015.
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India's Sensex stood out as the region's only benchmark to trade lower, down 0.9% late in the afternoon, after the Reserve Bank of Index shocked markets by failing to cut interest rates.
When a money manager fails to perform up to the benchmark he has established for himself, the manager might (1) simply acknowledge his poor performance or (2) change the benchmark to one that will make his performance appear better.
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He determined a No. 6 seed or higher to be the applicable Cinderella benchmark due to the fact that since 2000 (the year that Lackritz calls the start of the modern era of college basketball), only 5 teams higher than the No. 5 seed have made the Final Four.
To benchmark oncologists' desire to use Avastin, some Wall Street analysts are using a chemotherapy, Eloxatin from Sanofi-Synthelabo (nyse: SNY - news - people ), as their benchmark.
That is most likely to happen at the ECB's next meeting in March, when it is widely expected to cut the benchmark borrowing rate to 1.5%, from 2.0%, in an attempt to stimulate the wider euro zone economy.
The benchmark lending rate was reduced by 0.25 percentage point late Thursday to 6.31% and the benchmark deposit rate to 3.25%, the first cut in borrowing costs since December 2008.
After falling 3.2% over the previous three sessions, the benchmark managed to carve out a 0.5% gain to 18981.84.
Even if it does not, few expect the benchmark price to fall to its levels of 2003, let alone 1999.
At a fraction of the price, we have some strong benchmark scores to go on, with the strange exception of CF-Bench.
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The central bank hoisted its short-rate no less than seven times in a thirteen-month period of tightening starting October 2009 lifting the benchmark rate to 4.75%.
Overall, an ETF that has a difference between its net asset value and benchmark compared to its expense ratio of 25 to 30 basis points is worthy of caution.
Yields rose on peripheral debt with that on the Spanish benchmark rising to a euro area era high while Italian yields breached 6% for the first time since 1997.
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Similarly, the spread of the two-year Italian government bond over the German benchmark widened to about 130 basis points today from 102 basis points a week ago and 17 at the start of the year.
The spread, or the gap, of the two-year Spanish government bond over a similar German benchmark widened to 165 basis points from 129 basis points a week ago and 53 basis points at the start of the year.
For example, even though a Nuke would cause ninety billion dollars in destruction the probability of this type of attack is so low that it creates a vector value below the benchmark needed to consider it a daily threat.
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