PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

Wooden blocks will slide off these smooth plastic construction materials — and besides, skinny little K’nex aren’t made to support the weight of solid blocks. If Amazon is the benchmark, that’s going to be a long tug of war. How sturdy will that tower be? Legos only fit into other Legos.

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Planful

OCTOBER 25, 2016

For another, their biggest risk is ensuring safety on the job sites, but they also face fluctuating demand in the construction industry and the risk this puts on their P&L. One recommendation was to establish baselines for the business based on prior experience, or to use external benchmarking information to evaluate performance and risk.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Additionally, with low demand for credit by the country’s borrowers, authorities reduced the loan prime rate, the benchmark lending rate, including specific relief on mortgages. Another cut of 25-50 bps may occur before the end of the year in a move that will free up bank funds for loan expansion.

Banking 40

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I was a mile deep on a subject matter of bond indexing, but now I had the opportunity to lead an equity indexing group, the entire fixed income team, our investment strategy team that does research for our clients around portfolio construction, those types of things. They create the benchmark. DAVIS: Yes, exactly.

Investments 52

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

Investments 52

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Their benchmarks were down. How much credit goes to places like the FDIC or the SEC or is it just the full faith and credit of the US government standing on top of a very healthy macro economy 00:23:14 [Speaker Changed] In terms of the market construct comparing us versus the rest of the world? They were down 3.8%.

Investments 59

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is above benchmark returns to be generated by active selection of credit quality duration and specific bonds. RIEDER: It’s funny you said that because, listen, I think we’ve gotten to the place where there actually is too much communication.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. So, you know, our sister company in South Africa, Africa have done 8% above the benchmark. It makes a massive difference over 50, 60, 70 years even just a percent.

Investments 52

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

So 00:09:10 [Speaker Changed] I know Orion for many years because from the RIA perspective, from a registered investment advisor perspective, clients want to know how their portfolios are doing, what their performance is, both in absolute terms and relative to benchmarks. So tell us a little bit about that.

Investments 59

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

And the methodology we use is very similar to what we originally constructed at Merrill. You know, if you look at the data, they say, oh, we’re active managers, but maybe they changed duration from 92 percent of benchmark to 94 percent of benchmark duration. RITHOLTZ: — taken into as poorly as the benchmark.

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