Investors are uncomfortable with unconventional strategies that use leverage and derivatives and incur
high tracking error.
In reality, fund manager keep on watching cash levels of funds and other corporate announcements of underlying stocks and accordingly decide to reinvest accumulated dividends in such way that it do not cause for
high tracking error.
The fund's primary benchmark will be the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, but as
a high tracking error fund, it will seek to differentiate itself from the index and maximize returns.
First off,
high tracking error is not a risk.
Even when the Canadian dollar appreciates strongly,
the high tracking error of currency - hedged funds often reduces any potential benefit.
Implementation issues encountered in designing low - volatility investment strategies include unwelcome concentrations in certain regions, countries, and economic sectors; the combination of low liquidity and high turnover, raising implicit trading costs; and
high tracking error relative to broad capitalization - weighted market benchmarks.
I don't know why XIN has
a high tracking error.
And you're looking for managers who have a «
high tracking error», as Inker puts it.
The KL Allocation Fund had a low correlation to benchmark indexes compared to the Morningstar category average and
a high tracking error, indicating a high level of active management and conviction.
But a fund with a low MER and a consistently
high tracking error is still expensive.
High tracking error volatility indicates a high degree of active management.
The Fund may have
higher tracking error and / or greater costs than other international investments.
It explains why ETFs that use strategies other than cap - weighting typically have
higher tracking errors.
Physically replicated ETFs typically have
a higher tracking error than those that have been synthetically replicated.
Low beta or low volatility strategies have lower absolute risk than the market, but typically come at the cost of higher relative risk and low vol strategies tend to have
higher tracking error, which represents the risk that the strategy deviates from the market for extended periods of time.
But, for investors willing to assume
higher tracking error relative to traditional market capitalization - weighted benchmarks, a multifactor approach, such as the WisdomTree U.S. Multifactor Fund, has the potential to enhance returns, while providing greater factor diversification and thus, may lower volatility compared to single - factor approaches.»
Low - vol strategies tend to have
higher tracking error, which represents the risk that the strategy deviates from the market for extended periods of time.
There is potentially
a higher tracking error that can result from traditional index replication — holding the physical securities — which can result in compounded tracking error over time and a difference in the returns of the ETF in comparison to the index it tracks.
It is quite possible for an ETF with a lower fee to post
a higher tracking error than a more efficient competitor.
With higher risk and
higher tracking error (5 % / year), Dr. Sharpe's simulation indicated that higher cost actively managed funds could have a somewhat greater chance of beating low cost passive management.
To estimate the potential cost to the naïve index tracker, we construct improved index tracking strategies that benefit from the effects seen in Figure 1, albeit with
a higher tracking error.
Not exact matches
Keynes outperformance did not come without commensurate risk (that is, if you measure risk as preforming differently to market benchmark): The
tracking error was 13.9 %, reflecting
high levels of concentration.
One
error and you're in the wall, most likely at
high speed and possibly blocking the rest of the
track too.
The researchers then confirmed that the number of singly paired chromosomes — also called univalents — was
higher in older mouse and even human egg cells, indicating that age - related segregation
errors could be
tracked back to increased numbers of prematurely separated chromosome pairs.
«The demands of cornering, braking, and getting the power down with consistency are all quite
high and the
track will punish poor handling cars or driver
errors.»
The ETFs in which we invest have low
tracking errors, low bid / ask spread, and optimal expense ratios to achieve
highest efficiency.
The ETF's
tracking error was
high in both years: — 3.2 % in 2008, and — 1.5 % in 2009.
That can mean either large
tracking errors or frequent rebalancing, leading to
higher expenses and capital gains taxes.
CWO also hedges the currency exposure of the fund, which is of dubious benefit given the
high costs involved in the form of
tracking errors.
DM: I personally think that the debatable benefits of currency hedging for long - term investors are vastly outweighed by the
high costs in the form of
tracking errors.
The
tracking error of TDB904 over TDB952 was better but still very
high at 1.63 %.
In fact, EEM has a significant
tracking error as you can see in the table below (negative
tracking error means ETF returns were
higher than the index):
Keep costs affordable; Deliver transparent,
high - conviction,
high -
tracking error portfolios (active), and build systems that we believe can systematically exploit behavioral bias (alpha).
In my opinion, any index fund that keeps revenue from securities lending should first ensure its
tracking error is no
higher than its management fee.
If these ETFs had large
tracking errors (for the record, they did not), their absolute returns would still have been very
high, but they would have been losers for not delivering on their mandate.
It has a MER of 0.48 % but its
tracking error can be expected to be
higher due to the drag from withholding taxes on dividends.
It has closely
tracked the underlying index over the last three years with
high correlation and low
tracking error statistics compared to its peers.
These performance differences are reflected in surprisingly
high levels of three - year pairwise
tracking errors to each another.
The fee is
high,
tracking error should be
high (although I don't have data on this), it is a leveraged product — so there is a risk that the counter — party will default, and it is too complicated a financial product; to execute it successfully, and without losing a lot of money.
Also, the theoretical
tracking error for EFA is expected to be
higher than VTI because of withholding taxes on dividends.
This structure typically reduces the cost and
tracking error * associated with replicating an index and increases tax efficiency • Tax efficient: HTH is not expected to make taxable distributions • Hedged exposure: Get Canadian currency - hedged ** exposure to the US 7 - 10 year treasury market •
Higher compound growth: The reinvestment of index distributions are reflected in HTH's Net Asset Value («NAV»)
Our stylized portfolios that blend six factors (volatility, value, quality, size, momentum, and dividend yield) with four different strategies (marginal risk contribution, minimum variance, Sharpe - ratio weighted, and equity weighted) demonstrated
higher risk - adjusted returns than the S&P 500 ®, with a lower
tracking error than most single - factor strategies (see Exhibit 1).
It managed this active return with a market
tracking error volatility of only 5.9 %, realizing an information ratio of 0.63, much
higher than the information ratio of 0.42 realized on the
tracking error of the unconditional long - only value strategy.
This also preserves balanced diversification, maintains a
higher degree of the percent of assets invested in the market and helps reduce
tracking error in the performance of the fund / account.
Ultimately, we care little about growth / value styles and focus on market - beating returns with
high active share, low
tracking error, and low turnover.
What incoming MoneySense Editor Jonathan Chevreau has to say about changes to OAS, what index investors need to know about
tracking errors and why lottery fever is running
high in the U.S.
After some initial trial and
error, I realized that investing in
high - quality businesses that had excellent fundamentals, competitive advantages, and lengthy
track records of growing profits was the way to go.
I do think that smart beta, in its many forms, will eventually displace
high fee, low
tracking error «active» funds.
«I want
high conviction, and I need to have
high active share, and if I have
high conviction and
high active share, there's a better probability I'll have a
tracking error that I'm looking for.
SEDAR only has reports going back to 2005, and since that time the fund's
tracking error has averaged — 1 %, or 17 basis points
higher than its MER.