New departments have opened for period performance and Russian sacred music.
These days, only 32, or just over half, of those 62 funds are still in existence and are thus counted in standard trailing-period performance figures for the categories.
More detailed analysis reveals that many managers in the international small category had significant holdings in emerging market stocks, which is a different asset class that had stronger performance during the period.
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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.
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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.
British supermarket retailer J Sainsbury not only reported "strong trading" over the last three months, but a "record" performance over the Christmas period.
"Portfolio managers' bonuses could be conditional on their performance over a defined period, for senior managers, a minimum of three years, " he said.
Mitsubishi UFJ took JPY 8.4 billion and MitsuiSumitomo JPY 7.2 billion fewer provisions than in the previous period, thus boosting current period relative performance.
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%.
There must have been stern words from manager Mark Hughes at the break because, after a pretty but ineffectual performance in the opening period, the hosts were far more incisive after the break.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Buffett looks at the historical performance of stocks and sees an unrepeatable period.
Even if the Commission turns out to be right, that would be a very long period of sub-par performance.
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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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The study was conducted by a 13, 000 employee NASDAQ-listed Chinese firm over a nine month period and found within the performance boost was an 8.5 percent increase in the number of minutes worked per shift and a 3.5 percent increase in the performance they squeezed out per the minutes they worked.
Russian engineers will certify, or "guarantee", the performance of the return capsules for a fixed period.
Gold's performance stood out against sharp drops over that period in the value of U.S. stocks and houses.
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.
The performance is particularly noteworthy because it came in a period when the dollar strengthened and lackluster economies forced consumers to stretch discretionary incomes.
The performance in Q was better than in the comparable period in 2011 due to higher average realized prices as well as higher production and sales of copper, gold, and molybdenum.
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