The phrase "above a benchmark" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing performance, results, or measurements that exceed a predetermined standard or level of achievement.
Example: "The team's sales figures were above a benchmark set by the previous quarter, indicating significant growth."
Alternatives: "exceeding a benchmark" or "surpassing a benchmark".
Any price above a benchmark -- set at 85percentt of the highest clearing price -- would be subject to a refund.
Many people have used gross alpha — the industry term for returns above a benchmark of diversified stocks, such as the S&P 500, and before fees charged to investors are deducted — as a proxy for investment skill.
Instead, it has reminded banks that they can always borrow at a "penalty rate" of one percentage point above a benchmark rate that is now 5.25percentt — a pointed message that those who speculate and lose have to pay some price.
Like most hedge fund operators, the funds charge a 2% management fee a year and takes 20% of any returns above a benchmark net asset value.
But a better gauge, they said, is the four-week average, which also fell but remained above 400,000, a benchmark for job growth.
According to data from Loanware, a research firm, European banks have been particularly active in sub-investment-grade lending loans that attract an interest rate of at least 125 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) above Libor, a benchmark dollar interest rate.
In seven studies (N = 1,566), we find that people look to others who are above-average as a benchmark for social comparison (Studies 1A an 1B), that "the average person" is not even considered a relevant low standard of comparison, and that despite perceiving themselves as better than average, people don't see themselves as better than their self-chosen standards of comparison (Study 2).
For an agent to be able to serve as an Aβ-imaging agent, literature precedents indicate that brain uptake ratio (%ID/g; the earliest time point; 2 5 min to that of the latest time point; typically for carbon-11; 30 60 min; and F-18, 2 h) of 3.5 or above could be considered as a benchmark for ability of a given agent to cross the blood-brain barrier38.
For an agent to be able to serve as an Aβ-imaging agent, literature precedents indicate that brain uptake ratio (%ID/g; the earliest time point; 2 to 5 min to that of the latest time point; typically for carbon-11; 30 to 60 min; and F-18, 2 h) of 3.5 or above could be considered as a benchmark for the ability of a given agent to cross the blood-brain barrier [38].
Some economists are predicting that oil prices, just above $97 a barrel on Thursday, could be sustained well above $100 a barrel, a benchmark.
In England and the US, financial incentives penalise hospitals with readmission rates above a certain benchmark.
