Sentence examples for benchmark because it from inspiring English sources

According to Steven Wetter, a Northern Trust senior vice president who heads the bank's international indexing group and will serve as the fund's manager, Northern Trust chose the FTSE index as its benchmark because it "has the best and longest track record and the most solid methodology, and is considered the standard" of the growing number of global property indexes.

This version of bottoming out is an important benchmark, because it will give people a tangible reason to believe that the bust won't last forever.

The 13.8percentt increase is an important benchmark, because it means that hundreds of new clinical trials and drug therapies will get the money needed to go forward.

Alexander (here) and Clegg (here) both explained that they objected to the £50,000 benchmark because it implied the party would focus on income.

But it claimed that the census was an unreliable benchmark because it failed to factor in variables such as a higher arrest rate and more crime-suspect descriptions involving minorities.

They used the location of peak intensity of cyclones as a benchmark because it is a more consistent metric than statistics such as storm duration: The duration can be harder to estimate because of difficulties in establishing precisely when a storm should first be considered a tropical cyclone.

Two years later, the company said its compensation committee included same-store sales as one of its benchmarks "because it believed that good performance relative to these metrics is important for our overall financial performance and, therefore, is likely to have a positive effect on shareholder returns".

For the record, I don't view the Russell Microcap as a true micro-cap benchmark because, by design, at least half the stocks are small-cap (not micro).

He was able to claim this only by using the high figure of 2004 as a benchmark, because, after that peak, the number of homeless people in the UK dropped significantly.

If that doesn't turn your mood ring blue, consider this: the Global Market Portfolio doesn't need benchmarking because it is itself the uber-benchmark of all other portfolios.

The results illustrated that the errors of MLG have a relatively weak correlation with all the other benchmarks because it uses the label encoding scheme and multilabel KNN classification [58] instead of conventional regression methods used in other benchmarks.