Sentence examples for over a benchmark from inspiring English sources

The English bac will cause these same students to be plunged into compulsory language lessons, in which they learn nothing and which they detest, because the headteacher thinks that if one of them accidentally jumps over a benchmark set for them by a cabal of public schoolboys, the school will go up the league tables.

That is especially true for index-tracker funds that aim to enhance returns to eke out even a tiny advantage over a benchmark.Volatile markets have proved a boon to Volaris Advisors, a New-York firm that advises on managing volatility through call-writing and other fancy derivatives strategies.

The algorithm is tested over a benchmark consisting of 10 different continuous distributions.

Investors have bought in wholeheartedly, even though they often have to pay an additional price of 15% to 20% for performance over a benchmark on top of management fees.

This pursuit of "alpha" (the excess return over a benchmark index) is the single biggest fallacy undermining your returns.

They found that after fees, three-quarters of the funds exhibited zero alpha, a fund's excess return over a benchmark index, with virtually all the remaining having a negative alpha.

Performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with a number of state-of-the-art multimodal optimization algorithms over a benchmark-suite comprising of 21 basic multimodal problems and 7 composite multimodal problems.

DealBook » Judge Dismisses Bulk of Libor Suits Against Banks  |  A judge threw out a "substantial portion" of claims in private lawsuits against 16 banks over manipulating a benchmark rate.

Alastair Cook believes his England Test side remain two years from their peak, even if the crushing 330-run victory over Pakistan was a benchmark performance.

Reaction over Pd/Al2O3, as a benchmark catalyst (Pd particle size ca. 18 nm), resulted in a composite hydrodechlorination/hydrogenation of p-chloronitrobenzene (as a representative nitroarene) to generate nitrobenzene and aniline.

With Janet Yellen poised to take over, the federal funds rate — a benchmark that sets the overnight cost of borrowing for banks — is effectively zero.