However, as index-based mutual funds and ETFs continue to gain popularity and active managers are increasingly pressured to control their performance tracking error relative to benchmark indexes, the markets could become less efficient.
Mark Hulbert, well-known for his performance-tracking newsletter The Hulbert Financial Digest, has been tracking it since 2002, and has reported of it more than doubling the performance of buy and hold over the long-term while taking only 61% of market risk.
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Early on, we began to collect information about PC performance, tracking and identifying patterns of behavior that caused negative effects on speed and stability.
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Tracking Performance : Assessing the returns of a group of individual bonds can be difficult, because the income is not reinvested and some bond issues may not be readily priced.
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There's also another source that has been tracking the performance of the Zweig method.
The improvement in the relative performance of the Dow tracking SPDR Diamond Trust ( DIA) in the past few weeks suggests it may overtake SPY in the coming weeks.
One big obstacle in winning more of that business was Google co-founder Mr. Page, who objected to letting Google's advertising customers work with companies that installed "cookies" on people's computers for purposes of serving ads and tracking their performance.
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We added the Greenblatt portfolio to our site in January of 2009, but have been tracking its performance internally for several years, and its underlying model has factored into our Hot List selections for the past three years or so.
For instance, Mark Hulbert of Hulbert Financial Digest fame has been tracking investment newsletter performance for more than 30 years.
The former boss of Coca-Cola's Mexican operation, whose 58th birthday fell on election day, talks of infusing government with total quality management and tracking it with performance indicators.
The Index is a rules-based, modified global-capitalization-weighted, float-adjusted index intended to give investors a means of tracking the overall performance of a global universe of listed companies engaged in the solar energy industry.
Additional functionality will allow tracking of on-road performance, providing an Experian-like score on driver quality which can be leveraged by insurers.
Aside from counting how many steps a running back took in a game, the Connected Athlete may also be able to prevent injuries by tracking an athlete's performance habits, such as favoring a specific foot over another.
Zero tracking error trumps total return as the performance standard.
Criminal gangs use this equipment to hide their activity, for example blocking the GPS tracking systems in the lorries or high-performance cars they seek to steal.
Assessing a CEOs performance in this area is important and requires a means of tracking long-term social change (likely done by a civil society partner).
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These two scenarios can create an environment where performance expectations of investors may not be met due to the tracking error versus the underlying commodity index that is created.
The money-tracking firm found no persistent link between past equity-fund performance and future returns.
Beginning in the 2013 season, all 19 MLS clubs will use the data-tracking technology from adidas, providing coaches, trainers and players with real-time performance metrics including heart rate, speed, acceleration, distance, field position and, for the first time, power.
Michael Lipper, of Lipper Analytical Services, a fund-tracking firm, has made a small fortune from the industry's obsession with performance comparisons, but has found that time and again fund managers who were losers one year become winners the next, and vice versa.
There was also strong opposition to a number of other proposals, including whole-school performance bonuses based on test and exam results (76% disagreed with this) and the "fast-tracking" of bright graduates onto higher salaries (54% were opposed).
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