So, when you compare the 2009 figures of 22.75 % and 7.85 %, you are seeing a large currency gain
less the tracking error.
HXT should show
less tracking error than XIU because (a) the MER is cheaper and (b) the index tracking methods are completely different (HXT employs a swap to track the index whereas XIU holds the stocks directly).
Less tracking error means you have a better, more reliable product.
Now lets say after 1st April, the share price moved, now this would mean more tracking error if no action is taken [block 2]... and
less tracking error if one share of company B is sold and one share of company C is purchased.
With synthetically replicating funds a company can replicate an index precisely, thus with no or significantly
less tracking error than in most physical ETFs.
Not exact matches
On the ishares.ca site, they have a
tracking error chart for XSP, which shows an annual
error of
less than 1 % for the past three years.
Toss in the HST and investors can expect a
tracking error of 0.47 % — no more, no
less.
Given the liquidity of government bonds,
tracking errors will be
less of a problem with ETFs that represent government bond indices.
An ETF with fewer assets - under - management (AUM) may encounter
less index
tracking error over time since their positions in the component stocks will be smaller.
Another way to assess the cost is to compare the performance of a
less naïve strategy, with one that minimises
tracking error by buying exactly at the close of the addition or deletion day.
Using synthetic ETFs, fund managers can replicate an index with
less or no
tracking error.
Div Guy — Assuming minimal
tracking error an index investor will never beat the market and will always match it
less expenses.
When you purchase much lower cost index investor funds, then expect to get exchange traded funds (ETF) and mutual fund performance returns that target the underlying index
less the much lower costs you pay and a relatively small
error in
tracking the index.
- but the currency can fluctuate in a completely different way from what forward markets imply — thats where the
tracking error in this example comes from: the CAD appreciated by
less than forward FX markets implied.
In contrast, the expected return of a passive strategy is 7.5 % (8 %
less 0.5 % in costs) with a narrower variance of outcomes that are largely determined by the
tracking error of the underlying ETFs.
The principal scientific objective is to make global SSS measurements over the ice - free oceans with 150 - km spatial resolution, and to achieve a measurement
error less than 0.2 (PSS - 78 [practical salinity scale of 1978]-RRB- on a 30 - day time scale, taking into account all sensors and geophysical random
errors and biases.Salinity is indeed a key indicator of the strength of the hydrologic cycle because it
tracks the differences created by varying evaporation and precipitation, runoff, and ice processes.
During the period from 2003 to 2008, the average storm
track forecast had an
error that was down to
less than 200 miles at 72 hours, and
less than 100 miles at 48 hours.
Looking back over more than 10 years, fossil free portfolios would have had a
tracking error of
less than 1 % (Compared with the average
tracking error of active managers, 5 %)