The phrase "a given benchmark" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific standard or point of reference that has been established for comparison or evaluation.
Example: "In order to assess the project's success, we need to measure it against a given benchmark."
Alternatives: "a specific standard" or "an established reference point".
Moreover, professional managers are typically judged and compensated by how well they track a given benchmark.
We then use it to find the portfolio that approximately stochastically dominates a given benchmark with the best possible approximation.
Not all managers charge the "two-and-twenty" of legend (a 2% annual fee plus 20% of the return over a given benchmark) but enough do to make this a very high hurdle to overcome.
Even if no profits are realized, private-equity firms get paid: under the "2 and 20" compensation structure, they receive a two-per-cent fee annually on assets under management, in addition to a twenty-per-cent cut of profits beyond a given benchmark.
This paper proposes a new approach to decision making processes for investors to focus on factor investing and stock selection strategies on the national stock market by capturing the momentum effect (when two portfolios of past relative winners and past losers continue to beat a given benchmark for a certain period of time in the future).
Beta refers to the correlation of return of your portfolio compared to a given benchmark and Alpha refers to the excess return above and beyond the benchmark.
Activity indicators quantifying the way in which services and goods are offered: information sessions given, benchmark comparisons, etc.
[C6.] Stocks Rise for a Third Day Stocks rose, giving benchmark indexes their first three-day winning streak in a month on optimism an economic recovery will lift companies' earnings.
The newly presented benchmarking methodology performance measure H (defined as the number of 1U boxes needed to accomplish the desired execution time using a given Big Data benchmark), would considerably reorder the TOP500 list.
In this paper we argue that the best methodology for TOP500 benchmarking should be based on the holistic performance measure H (TBigData, N1U) defined as the number of 1U boxes (N1U = one rack units or equivalent) needed to accomplish the desired execution time using a given Big Data benchmark.
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