Word: benchmarks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terrific year when we outperform the benchmark by one point or more," said HMC President Jack R. Meyer. "I don't think it's realistic to expect any institutional fund to do that over more than one year...
Rising with the sustained bull market, Harvard's returns have outperformed HMC's benchmark by 3 percent or more over the past five years. Last year's returns, however, declined from 25.8 percent in 1997 and 26 percent...
...most unusual feature is that each fund has an index component designed to match its benchmark--the S&P 500, Russell 3000 or some other. The index portion can run as high as 80% of the fund. Manager picks make up the rest of the portfolio. The funds hold virtually no cash. This unusual approach ensures that the funds will track the market when fund managers see few bargains, but gives them room to tilt hard toward favorite stocks--and outrun the market--when greater values emerge. Of course, it's a matter of how well they pick stocks. That...
...flash. But the real pain came Wednesday, when the market dropped an additional 100 in the time it took me to get a Diet Coke out of the office fridge. That took us down 10% from the recent tops of the Dow and the S&P 500--an ominous benchmark...
...heart of Illinois, assuming that if their TV dinners and stainless steel knives were good enough for Peorians, they were good enough for the rest of blue-collar America. The old vaudeville saying, "Will it play in Peoria?" took on new meaning as the city became a benchmark for the nation, helping to gauge American attitudes toward politics, religion and culture...