Since then, 4% up or down days are not at all unusual for this benchmark Chinese ETF.
If the fund beats its benchmark without exhibiting unusual risk or excessive volatility, it scores higher in Forbes ETF Advisor's ranking system.
Even if a small child has reached a significant growth benchmark, it is not unusual for a child to regress when exposed to ongoing, intense family clashes.
That's pretty unusual in the history of the Benchmark-Free Allocation Fund as well.
This is a very unusual situation from a scientific perspective, in which benchmark comparisons are the rule.
Rival venture capitalist firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital, for example, joined in an unusual pairing to pump $47 million into the company.
In an effort to keep long-term interest rates down, the central bank took the unusual step last year of declaring that it would keep the benchmark federal funds rate low "for a considerable period".
The last parameter was specifically introduced to assess if a data center exhibits an unusual energy behavior with respect to a reference energy consumption benchmark, here defined for the group the site belongs to.
I use Sawday's and Under the Thatch to find chic, unusual getaways in Britain and across Europe - there's a benchmark of quality and taste that matches what I'm looking for.
Mr. Markov said he had examined the funds' tracking error and beta, a common measure of sensitivity to a benchmark's movement, to show that the funds' performance deviated in an unusual way.
First, only two weeks ago the board's Federal Open Market Committee, which sets benchmarks on interest rates, severely dimmed its economic forecasts and took the unusual step of pledging to keep short-term interest rates near zero through at least mid-2013.
