"Our portfolios have performed between plus 3 percent to plus 10 percent for the first half of 2013," he said, adding that all the exchange's portfolios have outperformed benchmark indexes.
These Halbach designs, here tested in simulations of Maxwell's equations, significantly outperform benchmark magnets of the same size and strength.
While the number of initial public offerings fell by four-fifths in 2001 compared with a year earlier, most of the new stocks actually outperformed benchmark indexes like the Dow Jones industrial average, which fell 7.1percentt, and the Nasdaq composite index, which declined 21.1percentt.
It is apparent from Table 2 that the proposed NRM and NRM-DC models outperform Benchmark 1 and Benchmark 2 in this case.
Reported numerical tests reveal that the proposed gradient ascent-based methods outperform benchmark algorithms amid high competition for limited spectrum resources or when primary users are present.
The results show that the three hyper-heuristics outperformed benchmark dispatching rules and the two-stage hyper-heuristics produced significantly better performance than the other two hyper-heuristics.
CASVI's SV99, an index that tracks the top 300 companies in China on the basis of Environmental and Social Governance (ESG), has been outperforming benchmark indices in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets.
Regals major line of business – power transmission systems — earned 24% on sales before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, leading the power transmission industry and outperforming benchmark Emerson Electric by six percentage points.
For that reason, it seems especially interesting to examine whether sentiment-based trading strategies consistently outperform benchmark strategies using a long data set spanning multiple decades and business cycles.
The main contribution of our paper is that the trading strategies presented outperform benchmark hedging strategies for long (1 year) horizons in our prediction period (2000 2010) and specifically during the current crisis period (2008 2010).
