Finally, a quarterly benchmark report compared 32 risk adjusted indicators of quality of care across all residential and nursing homes in the Netherlands that used the interRAI-LTCF [ 9, 10].
During the maintenance phase, three years after the introduction in 10 homes, we selected three homes that differed on their quality of care performance according to quarterly benchmark reports produced for facilities in the Netherlands that work with the interRAI LTCF.
Whatever they might say about long-term shareholder value, this is simply too much for many of today's investors, many of whom are hedge funds, pension funds and institutions who measure their results — and earn their pay — based on quarterly benchmarks.
The attempt to achieve this, by publishing league tables and providing quarterly benchmarks of recruitment by trust, hospital, and centre, was considered to undermine collaborative recruitment work between organisations, research centres, and, in some cases, research teams.
The quarterly survey's benchmark index of large manufacturers, which includes about 1,200 companies, rose to plus 22 in June, from plus 12 in March.
The quarterly survey's benchmark subindex of large manufacturers, which includes about 1,200 companies, rose to plus 12 in March, from plus 7 in December.
At a time when the public markets disparage mixtures of businesses and demand quarterly (at least) benchmarks of performance, the buyout industry has become the anti-Wall Street.
VPP's chief executive oversees the private equity approach: top-to-bottom reviews of the hand-picked charity; identification of expansion opportunities and management goals; and clear targets backed by quarterly reviews to ensure benchmarks are getting hit.
Rep. Barney Frank, the architect of that proposed plan, wanted to structure the new expenditures on the bailout packaged approved for the automobile industry: CEOs would have to give up private jets, report to Congress on a quarterly basis, agree to certain benchmarks, and not use the money for mergers or lobbying.
Nobody had to meet benchmarks to help with quarterly earnings; nobody had to rush a product to market before the competition did.
"Funds invested are managed by best-in-class fund managers whose performance against benchmarks is monitored on a quarterly base by the Fund Monitor; managers who consistently fail to achieve returns at least to the benchmark may be replaced by managers with better levels of performance" he added.
