Sentence examples for benchmark and its from inspiring English sources

Over the period 1977 to 1998, the Unilever Fund had significantly underperformed the benchmark, and its trustees contended that the poor returns resulted from negligence by the fund manager, Mercury Asset Management (which Merrill Lynch had subsequently purchased).

Accuracy and efficiency of the new approach are demonstrated by a numerical benchmark, and its versatility is outlined by the analysis of different trimmed design variants of a brake disk.

It remains to be seen how much of a market share Toysrus.com will carve out and what will really happen to Benchmark and its rumored $10 million investment in the company.

The film's dark style and futuristic designs have served as a benchmark and its influence can be seen in many subsequent science fiction films, anime, video games, and television programs.

Harvard said it had outperformed its internal benchmark and that its returns put it in the fifth percentile of the 165 large institutional funds measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Services.

Thus, this study mostly contributes to this debate, first at a national level, and then as a new case study reporting this kind of benchmarking, and its significance is related to the actual results measured at the construction site for the traditional refurbishment works made in Portugal.

Both the convergence speed and exploitation ability of TLBO have been tested on well-known benchmarks and its effectiveness have been confirmed [18, 19].

The Wallace Center has been collecting data on growth trends and effective operational practices with an eye toward creating benchmarks, and its National Good Food Network program maintains a repository of research to date.

Harvard said that the endowment outperformed its internal benchmark and that its return compared favorably with those reported by the Trust Universe Comparison Services.

However, the Coach can identify much less modules than these in the benchmark set, and its trend is different from that of the benchmark set.

We design and derive a pricing model for an executive stock option with a strike price indexed to a benchmark and investigate its valuation and incentive implications.