In fact, Morningstar even had to admit that low fees and expenses are a better indicator of performance than their own star ratings.
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Average revenue per user, which is seen as a key indicator of performance, had fallen to 82 yuan per month by the end of March, compared with 91 yuan at the end of December.
Picking the top performing funds may seem intuitive but it turns out that not only is past performance a poor indicator of future performance, it may actually be an indicator of poor future performance.
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This may seem obviously true but as counter-intuitive as it is countless amounts of research has demonstrated that past performance is a very poor indicator of future performance.
Indeed over shorter periods of time, and under specific circumstances, short selling activity can be a very useful indicator of share performance.
The 90.3% drop was a good indicator, next to the performance of its rivals.
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If past performance is any indicator of future results, Eric Cantor should NOT be allowed to lead this class.
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Often the goal is to find the key indicator of a problem or to track the performance of a system.
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"These figures are another significant indicator of Scotland's economic under-performance, " he said.
Some 20% of the intake are on free school meals, an indicator of poverty often linked with poor academic performance, and 20% do not speak English at home.
It is obvious that our current approach to performance ratings are a poor indicator of organizational results.
Industry group, in general, as an indicator of business model, has the strongest influence on performance metrics used, with size and valuation premiums having little impact on metric selection.
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Performance of the banking sector is often a good indicator of macro economic health.
Because the performance ratio looks at the whole, rather than the sum of the parts, this indicator can take into consideration individual variables that are ignored by current metrics.
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