Word: benchmarks
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...percent increase made for the "best year ever" for Harvard's finances, according to Jack R. Meyer, the University's top money manager and was especially stunning because it far outpaced the 7.3 percent rise of the benchmark Standards & Poor 500 index...
...increase exceeded by more than 100 percent the gains made by the index the University selects as a benchmark for its performance...
Under the council's newly-formed relationship with the Coop, UC Books will set the Coop's used book price as the benchmark against which students can compare prices from other book websites...
...granddaddy of these so-called exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are SPDRS (called Spiders). Around since 1993, this security mimics the Standard & Poor's 500. Each share represents a fraction of a share of 500 companies. Your investment moves in lockstep with that well-known benchmark. Other popular ETFs include QQQs, known as Cubes and based on the NASDAQ 100, and Diamonds, based...
That means sitting down at 10 a.m. to pitch meetings like this one with his VC partners and competitors--Brook Byers of Kleiner Perkins, Steven Merrill of Benchmark Capital and CEOs Matt Glickman of BabyCenter.com and Dave Whorton of Springthings.com--to listen to the latest ideas from the world of philanthropy and interrogate the presenters, picking apart their Powerpoint presentations as aggressively as they would a B2B start...