Since 1995 FORBES has asked its columnists to compare the performance of their picks with the market.
Furthermore, this type of evolutionary progress will be hard for studies that compare the performance of any existing schools to capture.
Actively-managed funds are more difficult to match and it is a little harder to compare the performance of your holdings to a true benchmark.
As a result, sales managers could not compare the performance of difference sales people or estimate the sales that were likely to close by the end of the quarter.
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The Knight Frank Global House Price Index established in 2006 is a way for investors and developers to monitor and compare the performance of mainstream residential markets across the world.
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The following Exhibit compares R-Squared, Beta, and Alpha for two hypothetical large-cap equity funds, and will be used to demonstrate how investors can more meaningfully compare the performance of mutual funds.
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If you invest in single asset class index funds like the Vanguard Total US Stock Market index or the Spartan International Index at Fidelity, you can easily compare the performance of your individual holdings to the market index they track.
Dealers are offering a 24-hour test drive, and the automaker is inviting tens of thousands of non- vehicle owners to a roving "Auto Show in Motion, " during which they can compare the performance of cars like the Cadillac CTS with the BMW 3 series.
Class warriors eagerly compare the relative performance of wage earners in various income brackets over time.
We then chose to compare spending to the only performance measures that can be used to compare students equally across the country.
It is the first and only measure that can be used to compare and rank the profitability performance of companies in multiple industries.
Soon we will be able to compare the fiscal and economic performance of California, Illinois, and New York, with Texas, Florida, and Virginia, not to mention Indiana and Wisconsin.
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Then watch the indexes and compare your performance to them over time.
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Click here or on the graphic below to interact with the data and compare exchange performance based on number of IPOs, amount raised, market cap, stock performance and across different industries.
If one looks at the performance of HCA hospitals on the national standard measures of clinical performance as published on CMS Hospital Compare, one would find that HCA is among the very best performing healthcare providers in the nation.
This, and the optical drive, will be the real performance bottlenecks in the system and in the PC you could theoretically build to compare it with.
But what the data do not do is compare hedge fund performance with that of mutual funds--those comparatively boring investment pools for ordinary mortals.
The relative performance still looks quite strong (compare it to XLF), as it shows a clear pattern of higher highs and higher lows.
As more pan-European indices become available, some mediocre fund managers may compare their funds with the least challenging benchmark in order to beautify their performance, leaving clients in a marketing haze.
For the first time in 2000, agencies will submit to the President and Congress annual reports for 1999 that compare actual and target performance levels and explain any difference between them.
The new color brightness specification (measuring red, green and blue) published by the Society of Information Display (SID) allows consumers to compare projector color performance without conducting a side-by-side shootout.
Clients would look at the performance of the manager's portfolio over the past year and compare it with the return that would have been achieved had he done nothing at all.
Of course, like other central banks, the Federal Reserve continues to monitor systemically important payment and settlement systems and to compare their performance with international standards for reliability, efficiency, and safety.
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