Essentially, investors (and professional fund managers) use benchmarks—like the S&P 500 stock market index, for instance—as baselines against which to compare the performance of their own investments.

A Polk survey has touted that “only” 35% of hybrid car owners would buy another. Unfortunately, the details of the survey are not available, but Polk is in the business of selling information so ...

Benchmark comparisons may be imperfect, and it might well make sense for managers to avoid lingering on them too much when they pick stocks. But investors still need them, in order to be able to ...

Active managers have to compete for investor attention and assets in a crowded field of options. With accurate benchmarks, asset managers can identify where their strategies and team resources stand ...

Apple has added peer group benchmarks for developers using app analytics in their App Store offerings to let them compare performance to similar apps. It lets developers put their app's performance ...

Targets are goals a program has for itself: specifically, a target sets the percentage of students that should be meeting or exceeding the program’s learning outcomes for the program to fulfill its ...