First Quartile

基本解释

Where even if you can find somebody who's going to be a first quartile manager, there's almost no difference between the first quartile return and the third quartile return.
即使你能找到一位,一流的经理人,但在债券市场收益中,第一和第三个四分位数之间几乎没有区别
"Survival between these 2 groups differed, with 66 percent surviving 6 years in the first quartile compared with 83.8 percent in quartiles 2 through 4, " the researchers write.
研究者写道：“两组间的生存率不同，第一个四分位数的患者于第二至四百分位数患者的6年生存率分别为66%、83.8%。”
McKinsey discovered that one-third of banks and two-fifths of big American industrial companies dropped out of the first quartile of their industries in the recession of 2001-02.
麦肯锡发现，在2001-2002的衰退中，1/3的银行和2/5的美国实业型公司跌出所在领域的前25%。

Where even if you can find somebody who's going to be a first quartile manager, there's almost no difference between the first quartile return and the third quartile return.
即使你能找到一位,一流的经理人,但在债券市场收益中,第一和第三个四分位数之间几乎没有区别
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Small-cap stocks are tougher to price than large-cap stocks, so there's a 4.7% differential, first to third quartile.
小盘股比大盘股更难定价,第一和第三个四分位数的差距有4.7%
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Then as you move out to the equity markets where it's harder to price things as efficiently--large-cap stocks -there are two-fold percentage points,first to third quartile.
如果你转而观察,难以有效定价的市场,比如大盘股,第一和第三个四分位数相差2个百分点
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The hot-growth fourth quartile showed an 8% return, slightly better than the skanky first quartile's 7.5%.
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