Word: outperformance
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...market today are for the most part valuable entities, and the employees of many of them will find ways to make them even more valuable in the future - something that cannot be said of gold or real estate or baseball cards, which is why stocks can be expected to outperform all of those assets over time. It stands to reason that it's better to buy into stocks at today's prices than at those that prevailed a year ago. But it's also possible that they'll be even cheaper next year...
...Drivers of University Endowment Success”—a study written by Business School professor Josh Lerner, MIT professor Antoinette Schoar, and MIT doctoral student Jialan Wang—found an “increasing skewness of endowment sizes,” as rich universities continue to outperform less wealthy academic institutions...
...said that aggregate scores include the scores of typically under-performing subgroups, including minorities, as well as students who are from low-income families or who do not speak English well. MacDonald added that when the results are broken down by subgroup, 72 percent of the subgroups in Cambridge outperform their counterparts in the state. But the district’s aggregate scores are still low because the student population in Cambridge has a higher proportion of these subgroups, she said. Fowler-Finn and MacDonald stressed the importance of factoring in the difficulty of the tests when interpreting the results...
...that, if elected, Clinton or John McCain would drive the country off a cliff - or that Obama, as a comparative novice, would be more cautious and less burdened by his habits. But the study of experience does indicate that the more seasoned candidates wouldn't automatically outperform Obama as President. On the other hand, Ericsson's conclusion that deliberate practice leads to better performance might favor the punctilious, famously diligent Clinton...
...Brabeck still gets some respect from Wall Street. "He's done well so far in keeping the top line bubbling and extracting better margins," Wood says. Wood and other analysts--including those at Goldman Sachs, which recently added Nestle to its list of recommended stocks--believe that Nestle could outperform its rivals in the next few years precisely because the company has so much room to improve its bottom line...