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5 unusual facts about benchmarking


Lipper average

Lipper Average also known as Lipper Index are a series of indices that establish benchmarks to measure the performance of a portfolio, or of various mutual funds and exchange-traded funds produced by Lipper Analytical Services.

Manager of managers fund

The performance of those managers will then be measured against their respective benchmarks, replacing as necessary to maintain the fund’s overall performance and risk control measures.

Merrill Lynch High Yield Master II

The Merrill Lynch US High Yield Master II Index (H0A0) is a commonly used benchmark index for high yield corporate bonds.

Outotec

A listing on the Helsinki Stock Exchange followed shortly afterwards, and the company was promoted to the benchmark OMX Helsinki 25 as a result of the index's February 2007 reclassification.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Benchmarking is the setting of a policy target based on some frame of reference.


European health management association

It is also a participant in the EURO-DRG project, delivering a work package on hospital benchmarking of DRG data.

James C. Garland

To achieve this status, he developed a strategy to raise intellectual quality and apply quantitative benchmarking and best practice, and led Miami in a significant capital improvement and construction program.

John Mashey

Mashey was one of the founders of the SPEC benchmarking group, was an ACM National Lecturer for four years, has been guest editor for IEEE Micro, and one of the long-time organizers of the Hot Chips conferences.

Lawrence Kaufmann

He is an advisor to Ontario Energy Board staff on issues of alternative regulation and benchmarking.

Michael Larabel

Larabel is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite - an open-source benchmarking software package for Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD, and Windows operating systems - and related software such as Phoromatic and PTS Desktop Live.

Pedro Camacho

3DMark Fire Strike (High End PC Benchmarking for DX11) (Composer, Sound Designer) – Futuremark Corporation

Software audit review

From the List of tools for static code analysis some are covering a very large spectrum from code to architecture review, and could be use for benchmarking.

SPEC XPC

In 1993, the XPC project group developed Xmark93, a standardized benchmarking tool for measuring the performance of computer systems running the X Window System.

Voting advice application

A study of VAAs by the University of Antwerp ends with a plea for a careful selection of VAA statements and for a proper process of benchmarking based on survey data.

Zvezdan Martič

He was a member of the OLS (On line service group) at EBU (European Broadcasting Union), where he was also a member of the Benchmarking and Teletext groups.


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